US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 26 for "Adaptive loop filtering-based image coding apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,830, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Adaptive loop filtering-based image coding apparatus and method" was invented by Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present document, filtering for chroma blocks can be performed on the basis of luma blocks. For example, a cross component adaptive loop filtering process can be performed. Therefore, the accuracy of in-loop filtering can be improved."

The patent was filed on May 9, 2024, under Application No. 18/659,656.

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