ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,043, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Local blur and illumination compensation" was invented by Cheung Auyeung (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video decoding includes calculating filter coefficients of a filter operation based on neighboring reconstructed samples of a current block and neighboring reconstructed samples of a reference block for the current block. A positional relationship of the neighboring reconstructed samples of the current block to the current block is the same as a positional rela...