ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,297, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Cross-component sample offset" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for video decoding including processing circuitry is provided. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a bitstream that includes coded information indicating a filter shape of a sample offset filter to be applied to a reconstructed sample of a first component in a current picture, the filter shape of the sample offset filter being one of a plurality of filter shapes, e...