ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,037, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Area optimized storage scheme for cross-component adaptive loop filtering" was invented by Vikrant Mahajan (Dinanagar, India), Krishna Murthy (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Nellikatte Srivatsa (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Mishra (Bhubaneswar, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for processing video data. For instance, a process can include obtaining a block of luma information for a block of video data. The process can further include applying a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filter to the luma information to generate SAO filter...