US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on March 25 for "Cross-plane filtering for chroma signal enhancement in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,064, issued on March 25, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Cross-plane filtering for chroma signal enhancement in video coding" was invented by Jie Dong (San Diego), Yuwen He (San Diego) and Yan Ye (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cross-plane filtering may be used to restore blurred edges and/or textures in one or both chroma planes using information from a corresponding luma plane. Adaptive cross-plane filters may be implemented. Cross-plane filter coefficients may be quantized and/or signaled such that overhead in a bitstream minimizes performance degradation. Cross-plane filtering may be ...