ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,958, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for coding image" was invented by Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present document, an in-loop filtering procedure in an image/video coding procedure may comprise a cross-component adaptive loop filtering procedure. CCALF, according to the present embodiment, can increase the accuracy of in-loop filtering."

The patent was filed on March 21, 2024, under Application No. 18/612,610.

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