ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,852, issued on March 4, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).
"Encoder for coded pictures having regions with common motion models" was invented by Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.), Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder is configured to generate an encoded bitstream that can be decoded by a decoder that is configured to receive a bitstream. The bitstream includes a picture comprising a first contiguous region of a first plurality of coding blocks and a second contiguous region comprising a second plurality of coding blocks. The first plurality of bloc...