ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,792, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Data processing in edge offset mode of sample adaptive offset" was invented by Xiaobo Li (Shanghai) and Tianxiao Ye (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data processing in an edge offset mode of sample adaptive offset are provided. The techniques include: traversing reconstructed pixels in a coding tree block, and calculating a residual value between each reconstructed pixel and original pixel; traversing all first reconstructed pixels in a non-boundary part of the coding tree block, and calculating a category of each travers...