ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,734, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for spatial extrapolation with boundary patch processing in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to perform spatial extrapolation based on information included in a neural-network post-filter characteristics message. In one example, a neural-network post-filter characteristics message includes a purpose syntax element indicating a purpose of a neural-network post-filter includes spatial extrapolation. The device may be configured to calculate a output patch he...