US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on March 31 for "Cross-component sample offset (CCSO) with adaptive multi-tap-filter classifiers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,039, issued on March 31, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross-component sample offset (CCSO) with adaptive multi-tap-filter classifiers" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (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 coding block of an image frame, a first syntax element for a cross-component sample offset mode, and a second syntax element for a filter t...