US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 24 for "Video encoding and distribution methods" (California, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,690, issued on March 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Video encoding and distribution methods" was invented by Vivienne Sze (Cambridge, Mass.), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas), 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: "A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering and SAO parameter signaling in a video encoder is provided that includes determining SAO parameters for largest coding units (LCUs) of a reconstructed picture, wherein the SAO parameters include an indicator of an SAO filter type and a plurality of SAO offsets, applying SAO ...