US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on Oct. 20 for "Methods, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for cross-component sample adaptive offset" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,847, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for cross-component sample adaptive offset" was invented by Xinwei Li (Beijing), Jie Chen (Beijing), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a video data processing method for cross-component sample adaptive offset (CCSAO). The method includes determining an index based on a vertical coordinate of a chroma sample within a picture; determining a luma sample based on the index; classifying the chroma sample based o...