US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Apparatus and method for deblocking filter in video coding" (Chinese, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,686, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for deblocking filter in video coding" was invented by Jianle Chen (San Diego), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and image processing device are provided, including a deblocking filter. The deblocking filter modifies values of at most MA samples of the first image block as first filter output values, the at most MA samples being located at a column of the first image block that i...