ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,364, issued on May 20, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"System and method for applying neural network based sample adaptive offset for video coding" was invented by Wei Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Che-Wei Kuo (Beijing), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (Beijing), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for applying neural network based sample adaptive offset (SAO) for video coding. The method may include classifying reconstructed samples of a reconstructed block into a ...