ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,767, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Geometric transformations for video compression" was invented by Bohan Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.), Yaowu Xu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jingning Han (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding a current block of a current frame includes decoding, from a compressed bitstream, one or more syntax elements indicating that a geometric transformation is to be applied; applying the geometric transformation to at least a portion of the current frame to obtain a transformed portion; and obtaining a prediction of the c...