US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Aug. 5 for "Adaptive application of generalized sample offset" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,101, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive application of generalized sample offset" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to adaptive loop filtering (ALF) for cross-component sample offset (CCSO), local sample offset (LSO), and generalized sample offset (GSO). ALF uses reconstructed samples of a first color component as input (e.g., Y or Cb or Cr). At least one of the GSO, LSO, or CCSO is determined to be enabled ...