ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,999, issued on June 24, 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. The method includes receiving, from a video bitstream having a hierarchical structure, a first syntax element associated with a first level of the hierarchical structure, in accordance with a determ...