ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,878, issued on May 13, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Virtual boundary signaling" was invented by Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden), Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden), Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden) and Jacob Strom (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a picture comprising a virtual boundary from a coded video bitstream. The method includes determining one or more of a maximum picture width or a maximum picture height from one or more syntax elements S1 in the coded video bitstream...