ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,475, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing method and apparatus using neural network based deblocking filtering" was invented by Quockhanh Dinh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided to obtain input data for deblocking filtering based on deblocking filtering target pixels of at least one line perpendicular to a boundary line of blocks and encoding information about ...