ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,867, issued on July 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"De-blocking filter for video coding" was invented by Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengalaru, India), Niraj Nandan (Nandan, India) and Hideo Tamama (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of de-blocking filtering a processed video is provided. The processed video includes a plurality of blocks and each block includes a plurality of sub-blocks. A current block of the plurality of blocks includes vertical edges and horizontal edges. The processed video further includes a set of control parameters and reconstructed pixels corresponding to the current block. A bo...