US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on Feb. 4 for "System and method for deblocking HDR content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,179, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"System and method for deblocking HDR content" was invented by David M. Baylon (San Diego) and Ajay Luthra (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for coding video in which deblocking artifacts are reduced by using modified filtering that is based, at least in part on pixel intensity associated with a coding unit, such that filtering levels are increased as pixel intensity increases. In some embodiments, an offset value or indicator of an offset value for parameters associated with deblocking filter parameters can be associated with a fi...