ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,437, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Enhanced resolution generation at decoder" was invented by Hua-I Chang (Irvine, Calif.), Khalid Tahboub (San Diego), Yasutomo Matsuba (San Diego) and Kai Wang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a decoder that includes a spatial prediction engine, a temporal prediction engine, a reconstruction engine, and a decoded picture buffer. The device also includes a controller configured to cause the decoder to, in a base resolution mode, reconstruct a base resolution version of a block of a frame using the reconstruction engine and at least one of the...