US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on March 11 for "Deblocking between block boundaries and sub-block boundaries in a video encoder and/or video decoder" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,413, issued on March 11, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Deblocking between block boundaries and sub-block boundaries in a video encoder and/or video decoder" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm) and Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deblocking the method. The method includes deblocking a block boundary between a first block (B1) and a second block (B2) with the restriction that not more than 5 samples are modified on the B2 side of the block boundary as a result of the deblocking. The deblocking method also includes deblocking a s...