Patent Document ID: 20050259745
Application ID: 11191131
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for deblocking video, comprising: determining whether an image unit of video information is an intra image unit or a non-intra image unit, the image unit having at least two boundaries; if the image unit is determined to be an intra image unit, then performing actions comprising: detecting one or more discontinuities at the at least two boundaries of the image unit; determining whether the one or more discontinuities include one or more artificial discontinuities and whether the one or more discontinuities include one or more real discontinuities; smoothing the one or more artificial discontinuities, if any, using a filter smoothing procedure; and smoothing the one or more real discontinuities, if any, using a visual adjustment procedure; and if the image unit is determined to be a non-intra image unit, then performing actions comprising: ascertaining a position of the image unit in a group of images; and smoothing one or more discontinuities of the image unit responsive (i) to individual locations of the one or more discontinuities relative to the at least two boundaries of the image unit and (ii) to the position of the image unit in the group of images.