ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,470, issued on June 17, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Directional cross component filter for video coding" was invented by Mohammed Golam Sarwer (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A directional cross component filter may be used in a video decoding method. The video decoding method includes: determining a direction of a reconstructed luma block; decoding an encoded bit stream to determine a plurality of filter coefficients associated with a directional cross component filter; and applying the plurality of filter coefficients to the reconstruct...