ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,061, issued on March 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Optimized edge order for de-blocking filter" was invented by Niraj Nandan (Bengaluru, India) and Mullangi Venkata Ratna Reddy (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A de-blocking filter includes a reconstructed memory that is configured to store reconstructed pixels corresponding to a current macroblock of a video image to be filtered. The current macroblock includes a set of sub-blocks, each sub-block having horizontal edges and vertical edges. An internal pixel buffer in the de-blocking filter is configured to store pixels corresponding to the set...