US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 2 for "Adaptive loop filter (ALF) virtual boundry processing" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,823, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Adaptive loop filter (ALF) virtual boundry processing" 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 (2400) for processing an image. The method includes obtaining (s2402) a set of sample values associated with the image, the set of sample values comprising a current sample value and sample values neighboring the current sample value, wherein the obtained set of sample values is included within a rectangular block of s...