US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 5 for "Filtering method and apparatus, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,031, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Filtering method and apparatus, and device" was invented by Dongping Pan (Zhejiang, China), Yucheng Sun (Zhejiang, China), Fangdong Chen (Zhejiang, China) and Li Wang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering method and apparatus, and a device are provided. The filtering method includes: when it is determined to enable Wiener filtering for an adaptive leveling filter unit of a current picture, deriving the adaptive leveling filter unit from a current Largest Coding Unit (LCU) of the current picture; obtaining ref...