US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Cross-component adaptive loop filter for chroma" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,020, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cross-component adaptive loop filter for chroma" was invented by Jonathan Taquet (Talensac, France), Christophe Gisquet (Acigne, France), Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France) and Patrice Onno (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of filtering an image is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving filter coefficients and first component sample values corresponding to samples surrounding a reference sample, and inputting said filter coefficients and first component sample values into a cross component filter to produce a cross component filter ...