ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,051, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Boundary block partitioning in video coding" was invented by Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Anand Meher Kotra (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partitioning method comprises determining whether a current block of a picture is a boundary block and whether the size of the current block is larger than a minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size; and if the current block is the boundary block and the size of the current block is not larger than the minimum allowed qua...