US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Jan. 27 for "Deblocking of implicit transform unit boundaries" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,948, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Deblocking of implicit transform unit boundaries" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect there is disclosed a method of applying deblocking on implicit vertical TU boundaries when the CU width is larger than the maximum TU width and applying deblocking on implicit horizontal TU boundaries when the CU height is larger than the maximum TU height. Some exemplary embodiments include HEVC deblocking and deblock...