US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Sub-picture level filtering in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,582, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Sub-picture 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 sub-picture with a sub-picture boundary. The sub-picture is decoded. Filtering operations are performed across the sub-picture boundary when the flag is set to a first value. The filtering operations across the sub-picture boundary are omitted when the fl...