US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Multi-feature sample offset filtering system for video coding and decoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,008, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multi-feature sample offset filtering system for video coding and decoding" was invented by Yixin Du (Milpitas, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Alican Nalci (Cupertino, Calif.), Mei T. Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Yeqing Wu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering system for video coders and decoders is disclosed that includes a feature detector having an input for samples reconstructed from coded video data representing a color comp...