ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,895, issued on July 1, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).
"Video frame transport" was invented by Wing-Chi Chow (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to a video aspect ratio of a frame of video not matching an aspect ratio of a display panel of a display device, a source device of a processing system transmits only the frame to the display device and metadata indicating that the display device is to generate bars for letterboxing or pillarboxing. By generating the bars for letterboxing or pillarboxing at the display device instead of transmitting the bars from the source device to the display device ...