ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,646, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"360-degree video coding using face continuities" 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: "A coding device (e.g., that may be or may include encoder and/or decoder) may receive a frame-packed picture of 360-degree video. The coding device may identify a face in the frame-packed picture that the current block belongs to. The coding device may determine that a current block is located at a boundary of the face that the current block belongs to. The codi...