US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 23 for "Cross component sample offset filtering with asymmetric quantizer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,598, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross component sample offset filtering with asymmetric quantizer" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Yushin Cho (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes aspects of advanced video coding technologies and is particular related to cross-component sample offset (CCSO) filtering of reconstructed samples. For example, a quantizer for quantizing sample deltas in order to apply a CCSO filter may be cons...