US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Jan. 20 for "Deblocking of video picture boundaries" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,987, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Deblocking of video picture boundaries" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for applying a deblocking to a coding unit in video pictures a provided. In one aspect, the deblocking is applied to sub-block boundaries in the coding unit and to implicit transform unit boundaries in the coding unit."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2024, under Application No. 18/817,928.

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