US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEBAASSIGN NEE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Feb. 3 for "Advanced bilateral filter in video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,899, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEBAASSIGN NEE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Advanced bilateral filter in video coding" was invented by Wenbin Yin (Beijing), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. The mechanism determines to apply a bilateral filter and a cross component sample adaptive offset (CCSAO) filter to samples in a current block of a current picture. The bilateral filter includes filter weights that vary based on a distance between surrounding samples and a central sample and di...