ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,718, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image processing method and device for AI-based filtering" was invented by Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungah Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Quockhanh Dinh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing method for artificial intelligence (AI)-based filtering includes: obtaining motion information regarding inter prediction of a current block of a current reconstructed image, based on the motio...