ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,968, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Device and method for coding video data" was invented by Chih-Yu Teng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Chiao Yang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data by an electronic device is provided. The method receives the video data, and determines, from an image frame, a block unit and a plurality of neighboring regions neighboring the block unit according to the video data. In addition, the method filters the plurality of neighboring regions neighboring the block unit to generate a plurality of template gradients. The method then derives a...