US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 23 for "Block-based reference sample interpolation filter optimization for video" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,864, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Block-based reference sample interpolation filter optimization for video" was invented by Saifeng Ni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas) and Rajan Laxman Joshi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive a bitstream for a compressed video and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The processor is configured to decode the bitstream for the compressed video and obtain reference samples associated with a block of a video frame. The pr...