US Patent Issued to Tencent America on April 21 for "Sample clipping for low dynamic range (LDR) based image and video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,054, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Sample clipping for low dynamic range (LDR) based image and video coding" was invented by Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ding Ding (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates generally to sample clipping in video or image and particularly to methods and systems for sample clipping in video or image based on Low Dynamic Range (LDR) coding. For example, an encoder or decoder may determine a sample clipping range for a bock and apply a sample clipping procedure based on the sample clipping ran...