US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Oct. 14 for "Composed prediction and restricted merge" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,595, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Composed prediction and restricted merge" was invented by Thomas Wiegand (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin), Christian Bartnik (Berlin), Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin) and Mischa Siekmann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder for decoding a video from a data stream using block-based predictive decoding is arranged to derive, using inter prediction, a first prediction, p1, for a current block, derive, using intra prediction, a second predi...