US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 12 for "CCSO with downsampling filters methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,799, issued on May 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"CCSO with downsampling filters methods" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jing Ye (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 and a first syntax element for a cross-component sample offset (CCSO) mode. The first syntax element indicates whether to generate a first sample offset of a first color sa...