US Patent Issued to Tencent America on March 3 for "Adaptive loop filtering on output(s) from offline fixed filtering" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,212, issued on March 3, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive loop filtering on output(s) from offline fixed filtering" was invented by Lien-Fei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guichun Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes processing circuitry that receive a bitstream including a picture. The processing circuitry applies one or more first fixed filters with constant filter coefficients to samples in the picture to obtain one or more respective first filtered outputs of the samples in the picture. Subsequent to appl...