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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2019
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jan Wassenberg, Zürich, CH;

Jyrki Alakuijala, Wollerau, CH;

Sami Boukortt, Zürich, CH;

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/86 (2014.01); H04N 19/124 (2014.01); H04N 19/14 (2014.01); H04N 19/117 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/86 (2014.11); H04N 19/117 (2014.11); H04N 19/124 (2014.11); H04N 19/14 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11);
Abstract

A method for decoding an image block includes receiving a quantized transform block; generating a decoded block from the quantized transform block; applying an edge-preserving filter to the decoded block, to obtain an edge-filtered decoded block; obtaining a transformed edge-preserved block using a transform type and quantization data to the edge-filtered decoded block; clamping a value of the transformed edge-preserved block to a corresponding value of the quantized transform block to obtain a smoothed transform block; and inverse transforming the smoothed transform block to obtain an edge-preserved smoothed block. The applying an edge-preserving filter to the decoded block includes determining respective patch-based distances between a pixel of the decoded block and neighboring pixels; determining respective weights corresponding to the respective patch-based distances; and filtering the pixel using the respective weights and the neighboring pixels.


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