Patent ID: 8787452

Claim:
A method of removing a blocking artifact using quantization information in a filtering system, comprising: obtaining quantization information related to at least one of a first block and a second block, the second block being adjacent to the first block; comparing the quantization information with a predefined constant value that remains fixed over more than one execution of a filtering process for a plurality of frames to determine whether the quantization information is greater than or less than or equal to the predefined constant value; and performing the filtering process based on a result from the comparing step, the filtering process including, obtaining a filtered value of at least one pixel in the first block based on pixel values of at least two pixels in the first block, and obtaining a filtered value of at least one pixel in the second block based on pixel values of at least two pixels in the second block, wherein the at least two pixels in the first block and the at least two pixels in the second block are successive pixels across a block boundary between the first block and the second block.