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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2004
Applicants:
Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, San Diego, CA (US);
Ann Chris Irvine, Bonsall, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, San Diego, CA (US);
Ann Chris Irvine, Bonsall, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM, Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/48 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments describe a method, apparatus and system for processing images using block based compression. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining whether two blocks are neighboring blocks, determining whether the two neighboring blocks are both subdivided, if the two blocks are neighboring blocks; performing deblocking filtering on one or more edge pixels of the two neighboring blocks, if it is determined that both of the two neighboring blocks are not subdivided.