I've been mentioned in someone's patent!

They seem to refer to my paper in terms of handling border pixels when doing prediction of pixel values...

http://www.google.com/patents?id=cuqgAAAAEBAJ

Abstract
There is disclosed the use of a beehive cell arrangement of shaped quantization blocks for grouping pixels for the digital approximation of analog video information. A frame may consist of beehive-arranged hexagonal quantization cell blocks or brick-wall-arranged rectangular cell quantization blocks, where each pixel belongs only to one shaped quantization block. A beehive cell arrangement of circle-shaped quantization blocks is described for use when the frame is partitioned into overlapping quantization blocks.

Patent number: 7313287
Filing date: May 21, 2002
Issue date: Dec 25, 2007
Inventor: Yuri Abramov
Assignee: Yuri Abramov
Primary Examiner: Jose L. Couso
Attorneys: Edward Langer, Shiboleth, Yisraeli, Roberts, Zisman & Co.
Application number: 10/478,233

U.S. Classification
382/251