US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 12 for "Feature based cross-component sample offset optimization and signaling improvement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,991, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Feature based cross-component sample offset optimization and signaling improvement" was invented by Samruddhi Yashwant Kahu (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives, from a coded video bitstream, coded information associated with one or more blocks in a current picture, the coded information indicates that a cross-component sample offset (CCSO) ...