ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,490, issued on April 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Tile level filtering in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Jianle Chen (San Diego) and Fnu Hendry (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a flag and a picture including a tile with a tile boundary. The tile is decoded. Filtering operations are performed across the tile boundary when the flag is set to a first value. The filtering operations across the tile boundary are omitted when the flag is set to a second value. The tile is for...