US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 11 for "Reusing adaptive loop filter (ALF) sub-picture boundary processing for raster-scan slice boundaries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,707, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reusing adaptive loop filter (ALF) sub-picture boundary processing for raster-scan slice boundaries" was invented by Nan Hu (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and media are provided for loop filtering across raster scan slices. One example includes obtaining the video data comprising one or more pictures and a first block of a picture having a pixel subject to filtering. A second block is determined to be located in the first slice in a particular relation to the second block. A thir...