US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Image processing device and method for performing efficient deblocking" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,146, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing device and method for performing efficient deblocking" was invented by Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Han Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deblocking filter of an image processing device is provided. The deblocking filter is used in an image coding process, for deblocking a block edge between a first coding block and a second coding block of an image. The first block has SA samples perpendicular to the block edge by N samples parallel to the block edge, and...