US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 8 for "Wrap-around padding for omnidirectional media coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,633, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Wrap-around padding for omnidirectional media coding" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Weiwei Feng (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a current picture includes based on a first determination indicating that the padding is not applied, encoding the plurality of sub-regions without padding; based on the first determination indicating that the padding is applied, making a second determination that the padding comprises wrap-around padding; based on the second determ...