ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,959, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image or video coding using deblocking filtering" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, filter length can be determined on the basis of the distance between block boundaries in a deblocking filtering process, the deblocking filtering can be performed on the basis of the filter length, and thereby, the picture quality of the image/video can be enhanced, and the effects of improved subjective picture quality relative to complexity and simplification of H/W des...