US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on March 4 for "Efficient implementation of matrix-based intra-prediction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,864, issued on March 4, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Efficient implementation of matrix-based intra-prediction" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Bjorn Stallenberger (Berlin), Michael Schafer (Berlin), Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin), Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin) and Mischa Siekmann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a predetermined block of a picture using intra-prediction by reading, for each of predetermin...