US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Sept. 2 for "Encoders, decoders, methods, and video bit streams, and computer programs for hybrid video coding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,852, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Encoders, decoders, methods, and video bit streams, and computer programs for hybrid video coding" was invented by Benjamin Bross (Berlin), Martin Winken (Berlin), Anastasia Henkel (Berlin), Paul Keydel (Berlin), Ivan Zupancic (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder for hybrid video coding, the encoder for providing an encoded representation of a video sequence on the basis of an input video content, and the encoder configured to: d...