US Patent Issued to Apple on July 1 for "Enhanced cross component sample offset filtering system for video coding and decoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,786, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced cross component sample offset filtering system for video coding and decoding" was invented by Yixin Du (Milpitas, Calif.), Alexandros Tourapis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yunfei Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jun Xin (San Jose, Calif.), Alican Nalci (Cupertino, Calif.), Mei T. Guo (San Jose, Calif.), Yeqing Wu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-component based filtering system is disclosed for video coders and decoders. The filtering system may include a filter having an input for a filter offset and an inp...