ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,425, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"CCSO with band offset only option" was invented by Han Gao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xin Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jing Ye (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a video bitstream includes a current image frame and a first syntax element. The first syntax element has a first predefined value that indicates that the band offset only mode is enabled to determine a first sample offset o...