US Patent Issued to Apple on July 29 for "Techniques for contouring/banding artifact removal in compressed image/video" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,660, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for contouring/banding artifact removal in compressed image/video" was invented by Van Luong Pham (San Diego), Arash Vosoughi (San Jose, Calif.), Dzung T Hoang (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Linfeng Guo (Cupertino, Calif.), Alican Nalci (Cupertino, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.), Hilmi Enes Egilmez (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low complexity, hardware-friendly techniques are proposed for video coding systems to mitigate banding artifacts while maintaining the compression efficiency. In...