US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on March 18 for "Methods and systems for cross-component sample adaptive offset" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,079, issued on March 18, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods and systems for cross-component sample adaptive offset" was invented by Xinwei Li (San Mateo, Calif.), Ru-Ling Liao (San Mateo, Calif.), Jie Chen (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video data processing includes: determining a category index of a target chroma sample, wherein the category index is determined based on a first reconstructed value associated with a co-located luma sample and a second reconstructed value associated with the target chroma sample; determini...