ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,748, issued on July 1, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross component filtering using a temporal source frame" was invented by Yixin Du (Los Altos, 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: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry obtains reconstructed samples in a temporal source frame that is different from a current frame, and determines filter coefficients of a filter for a...