ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,604, issued on June 3, was assigned to Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"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: "A method, a device, and a medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a residual of each of a plurality of target pixels of a target image, the residual being represented by a first preset number of bits; and modifying, in response to determining that the plurality of residuals are within a preset value range, each of the plurality of residuals to be represented by a second preset number of bits."
The patent was filed on ...