US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 17 for "Selecting a filter shape of a cross-component filter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,536, issued on June 17, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Selecting a filter shape of a cross-component filter" was invented by Xiang Li (Saratoga, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Yixin Du (Los Altos, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video encoding includes determining a filter shape of a cross-component filter applied to a chroma coding block (CB), generating a first intermediate CB by applying a loop filter to the chroma CB, and generating a second intermediate CB by applying, to a corresponding luma CB, the cross-compone...