ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,149, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Enhanced interpolation filtering" was invented by Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden) and Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for encoding or decoding a video, the video comprising a sequence of pictures which includes a first picture and a second picture. The method comprises obtaining a first group of values of samples included in a first block, wherein the first block is included in the first picture. The method further comprises selecting, from a set of filters, a filter to use for generating a...