US Patent Issued to Tencent America on Sept. 9 for "Cross component sample offset filtering with interpolated filter taps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,720, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cross component sample offset filtering with interpolated filter taps" was invented by Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Han Gao (San Diego), Liang Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jing Ye (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally describes a set of advanced video coding technologies, and is specifically related to cross-component sample offset (CCSO) filtering. For example, a CCSO filter having fractional CCSO filtering tap positions may be used to generate sample offsets from one color component of...