ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,904, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).
"Out-of-the-loop shade elimination technique" was invented by Ihab M. A. Amer (Markham, Canada), Konstantin Moskvitin (Markham, Canada), Haibo Liu (Markham, Canada), Mehdi Saeedi (Markham, Canada), Ho Hin Lau (Markham, Canada) and Mehdi Semsarzadeh (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing video operations is provided. The technique includes decoding underlying content to obtain a decoded block; and applying a shade pattern to the decoded block to obtain a final block."
The patent was filed on March 24, 2023, under Applic...