ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,837, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of filtering reconstructed video data is provided. The method receives an array of reconstructed luma samples including a P-block and a Q-block that are both adjacent to an intra sub-partitions (ISP) edge, and determines a first maximum filter length based on whether a first size of a...