US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 17 for "Video encoding and distribution methods" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,748, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Video encoding and distribution methods" 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 common infor...