US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Oct. 21 for "Video decoder, video encoder, method for decoding a video content, method for encoding a video content, computer program and video bitstream" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,440, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Video decoder, video encoder, method for decoding a video content, method for encoding a video content, computer program and video bitstream" was invented by Jan Stegemann (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder is configured to decode a plurality of video frames which are subdivided into a set of one or more slices. The decoder evaluates slice type information indicating whether a slice is encoded ...