ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,044, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Adaptive non-linear mapping for sample offset" was invented by Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for in-loop sample offset filtering in a video decoder is disclosed. The method includes obtaining at least one statistical property associated with reconstructed samples of at least a first color component in a current reconstructed data block of a video stream, selecting a target sample offset filter among a plurality of sample offset filters based on the at leas...