ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,706, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"High level syntax control of loop filter" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Mohammed Golam Sarwer (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for video encoding, comprising: receiving a video sequence; encoding the video sequence by using control flags for luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) at a sequence level, a picture level, or a slice level, wherein the sequence level, the picture level, and the slice level are levels ranking from high to low...