ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,806, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Coding enhancement in cross-component sample adaptive offset" was invented by Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Xiaoyu Xiu (Beijing), Wei Chen (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (Beijing), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data, comprising: receiving, from the video signal, a picture frame including a first component, and a second component; determining a classifier for the first component based on a first set of one or mor...