ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,097, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Filter shape switching" was invented by Yixin Du (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An example method of video decoding includes receiving a video bitstream and reconstructing a first sample of the video bitstream using a non-linear mapping-based filter with a first filter shape configuration of a plurality of filter shape configurations. The plurality of filter shape configurations includes...