ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,942, issued on May 26, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.) and Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Artifact processing in video using texture information" was invented by Xuchang Huangfu (Beijing), Yuanyi Xue (Alameda, Calif.), Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Yang Zhang (Dubendorf, Switzerland), Chen Liu (Beijing) and Xuewei Meng (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives an image to analyze for artifacts. Texture information that characterizes texture in the image is determined. The method merges the texture information with the image. The texture infor...