US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Preprocessing of input data for adaptive loop filter in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,797, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Preprocessing of input data for adaptive loop filter in video coding" was invented by Han Huang (San Diego), Cheng-Teh Hsieh (Del Mar, Calif.), Nan Hu (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for decoding video data can be configured to determine a prediction block for a current block of the video data; determine a residual block for the current block of the video data; process residual data of the residual block to determine processed residual data; store the processed residual data; add the predict...