ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,871, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Image processing device and method for performing quality optimized deblocking" was invented by Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Zhijie Zhao (Shenzhen, China) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device for use in an image encoder and/or an image decoder, for deblocking a block edge between a first block and a second block of an image encoded with a block code, is provided. The image processing device comprises a filter for filtering...