US Patent Issued to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 16 for "Cross-component sample adaptive offset" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,063, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and devices are provided for video coding. In the method, a decoder obtains a cross-component sample adaptive offset (CCSAO) quantization associated with an offset quantization control syntax and a quantization step size that are predefined or ind...