US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 15 for "Cross-component filtering on block-level reconstruction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,977, issued on April 15, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross-component filtering on block-level reconstruction" was invented by Xin Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture that is a part of a coded video sequence. The processing circuitry determines whether a cross component filtering (CCF) process is enabled for the current block based on one of a partitioning scheme, a prediction mode, a block width, a block he...