ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,739, issued on May 6, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing), Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles) and Bytedance (HK) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Updating for counter-based intra prediction mode" was invented by Junru Li (Hong Kong), Meng Wang (Hong Kong), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing) and Shiqi Wang (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video unit and a coded representation of the video, where, after the video unit is encoded or decoded with an intra prediction mode, one ...