US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Oct. 7 for "CCSO with high level flags" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,049, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"CCSO with high level flags" 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 high level syntax element for a frame level cross-component sample offset (CCSO) flag indicating whether to apply CCSO filtering on a current image frame. When the frame level CCSO flag indicates that CCS...