US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 11 for "Predicting filter coefficients from fixed filters for video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,709, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Predicting filter coefficients from fixed filters for video coding" was invented by Marta Karczewicz (San Diego), Wei-Jung Chien (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for filtering a decoded block of video data includes one or more processing units configured to construct a plurality of filters for classes of blocks of a current picture of video data. To construct the plurality of filters for each of the classes, the processing units are configured to determine a value of a flag that indicates whether a fixed filter is u...