US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Systems and methods for luma or chroma statistics collection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,119, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for luma or chroma statistics collection" was invented by Felix C Fernandes (Saratoga, Calif.) and Liviu R Morogan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of analyzing the luma statistics or chroma statistics to correct for image artifacts in decoded images. Video decoder circuitry may enable luma statistics collection circuitry housed in the loop filters to collect luma samples during the last stage of the decoding process. This enables output of luma statistics data and output of the decoded image together."

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