US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 21 for "Virtual boundary processing for adaptive loop filtering" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,734, issued on July 21, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Virtual boundary processing for adaptive loop filtering" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Jacob Strom (Stockholm), Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden) and Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding or decoding an image. The method includes obtaining a CTB having a vertical size (CtbSizeY) and a horizontal size (CtbSizex), the CTB comprising set of sample values comprising a current sample value having a location (x,y) within the CTB. The method also includes selecting a filter strength value for th...