US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on July 1 for "Extended reference intra-picture prediction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,712, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Extended reference intra-picture prediction" was invented by Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Simone Walter (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Paul Keydel (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder is configured to encode, by block based predictive encoding, pictures of a video into coding data, wherein the block based predictive encoding includes an intra-picture prediction. The video encoder is configured to use, for the intra-picture pre...