ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,081, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Handling face discontinuities in 360-degree video coding" was invented by Philippe Hanhart (La Conversion, Switzerland), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities may be provided for discounting reconstructed samples and/or coding information from spatial neighbors across face discontinuities. Whether a current block is located at a face discontinuity may be determined. The face discontinuity may be a face boundary between two or more adjoining blocks that are not spherical...