US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 21 for "Video decoding using a noise-based effect reference value reconstruction" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,743, issued on July 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Video decoding using a noise-based effect reference value reconstruction" was invented by Mark Thompson (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jonathan Philip Bonsor-Matthews (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit (PU) is configured to generate reference values based on previously displayed frames in order to decode encoded frames having one or more noise-based effects. To this end, the PU includes a noise effect circuitry configured to determine noise values associated with a previously displayed frame. The noise e...