ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,704, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Picture processing method and video decoder" was invented by Tong Tang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picture processing method and a video decoder are provided in the disclosure. In this disclosure, a joint asymptotic feature of a boundary to-be-filtered is determined according to sample values of samples at two sides of the boundary to-be-filtered. The joint asymptotic feature can truly reflect whether the boundary to-be-filtered is a real boundary. Whether to filter the boundary to-be-filtered is det...