US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung derangewandten Forschung on Sept. 16 for "Use-case driven context model selection for hybrid video coding tools" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,654, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung derangewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Use-case driven context model selection for hybrid video coding tools" was invented by Jonathan Pfaff (Berlin), Philipp Helle (Berlin), Michael Schafer (Berlin), Tobias Hinz (Berlin), Bjorn Stallenberger (Berlin), Philipp Merkle (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an encoder, which receives image or video data, encodes the data and provides a bitstream. The encoder includes a CABAC encoder, which receives a binary va...