ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,993, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).
"Geometric partitioning refinement" was invented by Young-Yoon Lee (McLean, Va.), Tae Meon Bae (McLean, Va.), Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.) and Kalyan Goswami (Reston, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a decoder may receive, from a bit stream, a residual of a block and an indication that the residual was determined based on a refined partition edge. The decoder may determine the refined partition edge based on the indication and reference samples neighboring the block. The decoder may determine based on at least one prediction mode, a prediction ...