US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 22 for "Offset decoding device, offset coding device, image filtering device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,342, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Offset decoding device, offset coding device, image filtering device" was invented by Takanori Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyuki Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yukinobu Yasugi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adaptive offset filter (60) adds an offset to the pixel value of each pixel forming an input image. The adaptive offset filter (60) refers to offset-type specifying information, sets offset attributes for a subject unit area of the input image, decodes an offset having a bit width corresponding to a...