US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 27 for "Adaptive loop filtering (ALF) for video coding" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,193, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Adaptive loop filtering (ALF) for video coding" was invented by Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas) and Minhua Zhou (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive loop filtering of a reconstructed picture in a video encoder is provided that includes determining whether or not sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering is applied to the reconstructed picture, and using adaptive loop filtering with no offset for the reconstructed picture when the SAO filtering is determined to be applied to the reconstructed picture."

The patent was filed on June 3,...