ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,633, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cross component 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, a cross component adaptive loop filtering (CCALF) process may be performed. The CCALF process can enhance the filtering performance for chroma components and improve the subjective/objective image quality of a picture."

The patent was filed on Nov. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/520,912.

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