US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) blocking artifacts mitigation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,046, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Motion-compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) blocking artifacts mitigation" was invented by Jae Young Park (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes memory and motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) circuitry communicatively coupled to the memory. The MCTF circuitry is configured to receive a plurality of motion vectors. The MCTF circuitry is also configured to retrieve a plurality of source pixel values and a plurality of reference pixel values from the memory. The plurality of source pixel values and the plurality of...