ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,656, issued on July 29, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Filter shape for sample offset" was invented by Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for filtering in video decoding, a coded video bitstream that includes filter shape index information is received. A filter shape configuration of a video filter is determined based on the filter shape index information. The filter shape index information indicates that a number of filter taps of the filter shape configuration is less than five. Offset values associated with t...