ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,649, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Device and method for decoding video data" was invented by Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Yu Teng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data by an electronic device is provided. The electronic device receives the video data and determines a block unit from a current frame included in the video data. The electronic device determines, from a plurality of candidate lines, a partitioning line for dividing the block unit into a pair of geometric partitions using a geometric partitioning mode and, from a plurality of candidate...