US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Edge offset for cross component sample adaptive offset (CCSAO) filter" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,070, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Edge offset for cross component sample adaptive offset (CCSAO) filter" was invented by Venkata Meher Satchit Anand Kotra (Munich), Nan Hu (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for processing video data. For instance, a process can include obtaining video data. The process can further include determining a classification band for a first sample of the video data using at least chroma information from the first sample, collocated luma information and collocated chroma...