ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,152, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-filter video decoding with reduced top line buffer size" was invented by Anil Kumar (Bhiwani, India), Arvind Sudharsan (Bangalore, India), Sandeep Nellikatte Srivatsa (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Mishra (Bhubaneswar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for processing video data. For example, a process can include applying a deblocking (DB) filter to generate a DB-filtered plurality of sub-blocks with a bottom pixel row offset by a sub-block height from a bottom boundary of the block. The DB filter can be applied to ...