ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,848, issued on July 22, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Image coding/decoding method and apparatus therefor" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an image coding/decoding method and an apparatus for the method. More specifically, a method for filtering an image by a decoding apparatus comprises deriving boundaries of a block divided into quad-tree plus binary-tree structure; determining an edge among boundaries of the block to which de-blocking filtering is applied; determining a t...