US Patent Issued to Ofinno on May 26 for "Position dependent reference sample smoothing" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,269, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Position dependent reference sample smoothing" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder or decoder interpolates between a first reference sample and a second reference sample to determine an interpolated value at a point on a reference sample line to which a location of a sample is projected. The interpolating includes applying a first filter coefficient, determined based on a product of a first function and a second func...