ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,033, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Distribution of video content" was invented by Woo-Shik Kim (San Diego) and Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset without sign coding. The method includes selecting an edge offset type for at least a portion of an image, classifying at least one pixel of at least the portion of the image into edge shape category, calculating an offset of the pixel, determining the offset is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold, changing a sign of the offset based on the threshold determination; ...