US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 17 for "CCSO with filter shapes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,085, issued on March 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"CCSO with filter shapes" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a video bitstream includes a current image frame, a first syntax element for a cross-component sample offset (CCSO) mode, and a second syntax element for defining a filter shape of a loop filter applied in the CCSO mode. When the first syntax element indicates that CCSO mode is enabled, a s...