US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 12 for "Image coding method and device using deblocking filtering" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,842, issued on May 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image coding method and device using deblocking filtering" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: generating a restoration picture on the basis of prediction samples of a coding block; deriving a boundary strength (BS) for a boundary of the coding block in the restoration picture; performing deblocking filtering on the boundary of the coding block on the basis of ...