US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 19 for "Adaptive loop filter with samples before deblocking filter and samples before sample adaptive offsets" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,628, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive loop filter with samples before deblocking filter and samples before sample adaptive offsets" was invented by Nan Hu (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego), Venkata Meher Satchit Anand Kotra (Munich) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding video data determines a pre-filtered reconstructed block of video data; applies one or more of a deblocking filter or a sample adaptive offset filter to the pre-filtered reconstructed block to determine a filtered reconstructed block; applies an adaptive loop filter (ALF) to the...