US Patent Issued to Tencent America on March 25 for "Adaptive bands for filter offset selection in cross-component sample offset" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,019, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive bands for filter offset selection in cross-component sample offset" was invented by Samruddhi Yashwant Kahu (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry receives coded information indicative of applying cross-component sample offset (CCSO) with adaptive bands. The processing circuitry determines at least a first band width for a first band a second band width for a second band. The processing circuitry determines at least a first offset associated with t...