US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,990, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data" was invented by Weijia Zhu (Vancouver, Wash.), Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.) and Philip Cowan (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data are disclosed. Sample values in adjacent reconstructed video blocks are modified according to multiple passes of a deblocking filter. A filtering pass may correspond to processing or constructing of all or subset of...