ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,759, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Motion compensated picture boundary padding" was invented by Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to video coding and particularly to methods and systems for boundary padding for motion compensation. For example, a motion vector for a motion compensation padded block in a motion compensation padding area of a picture in a video may be determined from scanning a set of neighboring boundary blocks of the picture and/or a set of co-located...