| CPC H04N 19/86 (2014.11) [H04N 19/117 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/503 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11)] | 18 Claims |

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1. A de-blocking filter device in an image encoder or an image decoder, for deblocking transform block boundaries of transform blocks within a coding block coded in inter prediction mode, the transform blocks including a first transform block and a second transform block that is adjacent to the first transform block, comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and
a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to:
determine whether a boundary between the first transform block and the second transform block is to be filtered; and
determine, when a boundary between the first transform block and the second transform block is a transform block boundary and at least one of the first transform block or the second transform block has one or more non-zero transform coefficients, a value of a boundary strength (BS) parameter for the boundary between the first transform block and the second transform block to be a first value, wherein the transform block boundary between the first transform block and the second transform block is to be de-blocked only when the transform block boundary luma samples of the first and second transform blocks is aligned with 4×4 sample grid.
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