US Patent Issued to Tencent America on May 12 for "Adaptive cross-component sample offset filtering parameters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,796, issued on May 12, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive cross-component sample offset filtering parameters" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Samruddhi Yashwant Kahu (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a set of advanced video coding technologies and is particular related to cross-component sample offset (CCSO) filtering of reconstructed samples. For example, CCSO filter parameters may be allowed to vary from a filtering unit to another filtering unit. A filtering unit may be a filtering block or a filtering region co...