ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,032, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Systems and methods for performing padding in coding of a multi-dimensional data set" was invented by Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Tianying Ji (Vancouver, Wash.) and Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding data includes: receiving an input data set having an arbitrary size about a height dimension and a width dimension; padding the input data set according to a padding function selected from a set of padding functions, such that a data set having a desired size about the height dimension and the...