US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on May 27 for "Efficient coding of transform coefficients using or suitable for a combination with dependent scalar quantization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,847, issued on May 27, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Efficient coding of transform coefficients using or suitable for a combination with dependent scalar quantization" was invented by Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin), Phan Hoang Tung Nguyen (Berlin) and Detlev Marpe (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts are presented which achieve a more efficient coding of coefficients of a transform block by use of dependent quantization and context adaptive entropy coding or achieve a coding of coefficients of a transform block in a manner which allows a mor...