US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for boundary handling in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,213, issued on March 3, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for boundary handling in video coding" was invented by Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for filtering in video coding, first boundary pixel values of a subset of first reconstructed samples are buffered at a first node in a loop filter chain, a first filter and a second filter being applied to the first boundary pixel values, the first boundary pixel values being values of pixels at a frame boundary. Second boundary pixel values of a subset of second reconstructed...