US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 14 for "Sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter signaling" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,043, issued on April 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter signaling" was invented by Woo-Shik Kim (San Diego), Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, Texas) and Minhua Zhou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for signaling of sample adaptive offset (SAO) information that may reduce the coding rate for signaling such information in the compressed bit stream are provided. More specifically, techniques are provided that allow SAO information common to two or more of the color components to be signaled using one or more syntax elements (flags or indicators) representative of the c...