ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,346, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Reduced complexity coefficient transmission for adaptive loop filtering (ALF)" was invented by Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive loop filtering is provided that includes determining a coefficient value for each coefficient position of an adaptive loop filter, applying the adaptive loop filter to at least a portion of a reconstructed picture using the coefficient values, and entropy encoding coefficient values into a compressed bit stream using predetermined short binary codes, wherein the short binary code used...