ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,862, issued on May 27, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).
"Methods and systems for adaptive cropping" was invented by Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.), Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Boca Raton, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder is configured to encode a bitstream to be decoded by a compliant decoder receiving the bitstream. The bitstream including a first coded picture having a first resolution and a second coded picture having a second resolution, wherein the first coded picture is an intra-coded picture, parameters defining a cropping window. The decoder decodes the first coded ...