ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,825, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Deblocking using sub-PEL motion vector threshold" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden) and Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deblocking at least one boundary of a coding unit, wherein the boundary forms a first side and a second side of the coding unit, wherein a video picture comprises the coding unit, and wherein the first and second sides use a same reference picture. The method includes obtaining a first motion vector component in the first side; obtaining a seco...