ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,637, issued on March 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Warped motion compensation with explicitly signaled extended rotations" was invented by Yue Chen (Kirkland, Wash.), Yu Wang (Kirkland, Wash.), Hui Su (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yunqing Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding using warped motion compensation is described. Extended rotations for the warped motion compensation can be explicitly signaled. For example, motion parameters for predicting the current block and a rotation angle can be decoded. A warping matrix is obtained using the mot...