US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for improved adaptive loop filtering in video encoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,342, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for improved adaptive loop filtering in video encoding" was invented by Ximin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Yi-Jen Chiu (San Jose, Calif.) and Keith Rowe (Shingle Springs, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve video encoding. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the instructions to identify a first video frame as a critical video frame with re...