ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,838, issued on Sept. 2, 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: "This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for performing deblocking of reconstructed video data. According to an aspect of an invention, reconstructed video data having a 4:2:2 chroma format is received and for a four line decision segment corresponding to a ...