US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Content adaptive deblocking during video encoding and decoding" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,043, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Content adaptive deblocking during video encoding and decoding" was invented by Xiaoyan Sun (Beijing), Zhiwei Xiong (Beijing) and Feng Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing content-adaptive deblocking to improve the visual quality of video images compressed using block-based motion-predictive video coding. For instance, in certain embodiments of the disclosed technology, edge information is obtained using global orientation energy edge detecti...