ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,694, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DIGITALINSIGHTS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and device for encoding or decoding image" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus may reconstruct a current picture based on at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction, specify a block boundary to which a deblocking filter is applied in the reconstructed current picture, and apply a deblocking filter to a block boundary based on a filter type pre-defined in an encoding apparatus."
The patent was filed on May 30, 2024, under Application No. 18/677...