ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,803, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for reducing a reconstruction error in video coding based on a cross-component correlation" was invented by Kiran Mukesh Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Frank Bossen (Vancouver, Wash.), Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.) and Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of filtering reconstructed video data is disclosed. The method comprising: parsing a first syntax element used for setting cross-component filter coefficients; inputting a reconstructed luma picture sample array; deriving luma locations by using l...