US Patent Issued to SUN PATENT TRUST on March 11 for "Efficient rounding for deblocking" (German, Dutch, Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,398, issued on March 11, was assigned to SUN PATENT TRUST (New York).

"Efficient rounding for deblocking" was invented by Matthias Narroschke (Schaafheim, Germany), Anand Kotra (Frankfurt, Germany), Semih Esenlik (Nazilli, Turkey) and Thomas Wedi (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to deblocking filtering which is applicable to smoothing the block boundaries in an image or video coding and decoding. In particular, the deblocking filtering is either strong or weak, wherein the clipping is performed differently in the strong filtering and the weak filtering."

The patent was filed on O...