US Patent Issued to Sharp on March 25 for "Decoding device of filtering reconstructed video data" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,007, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Decoding device of filtering reconstructed video data" was invented by Wei-Jia Zhu (Sakai, Japan), Kiran M. Misra (Camas, Wash.), Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.) and Philip Cowan (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding device for filtering reconstructed video data is provided. The decoding device includes computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause the decoding device to: receive an edge type variable specifying whether a vertical edge or a horizontal edge is being filtered in a current block of the recon...