US Patent Issued to Sharp on April 21 for "Method of partitioning video data, device for decoding video data, and device for encoding video data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,090, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Method of partitioning video data, device for decoding video data, and device for encoding video data" was invented by Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Weijia Zhu (Vancouver, Wash.), Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.) and Frank Bossen (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, device, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium to determine whether video block is a fractional boundary video block and to partition the fractional boundary video block into inferred partitions using a subset of available partition modes are disclo...