Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
One-dimensional signal adaptive filter for reducing blocking effect and filtering method
 A one-dimensional signal adaptive filtering method and a one-dimensional signal adaptive filter. The one-dimensional signal adaptive filtering method capable of reducing a blocking effect of image data when a frame is composed of blocks of a predetermined size includes the steps of: (a) applying a one-dimensional window of a predetermined size along the boundaries of the blocks to perform a predetermined gradient operation on each pixel within the one-dimensional window; (b) calculating threshold values (T) for each pixel within the one-dimensional window, which is determined by a predetermined function of a quantization step (Q); (c) comparing the results of the gradient operation on each pixel within the one-dimensional window with the corresponding calculated threshold value to generate a comparison result as a binary edge map; (d) applying a one-dimensional filter window of a predetermined size on the generated binary edge map to generate weighted values using the binary value belonging to the one-dimensional filter window; and (e) performing filtering using the generated weighted values to generate new pixel values. The effect of the method is to eliminate blocking noise from a restored block-based image, thereby enhancing an image restored from compression. 
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