ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,985, issued on April 15, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Syntax reuse for affine mode with adaptive motion vector resolution" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video processing is disclosed to include: determining, for a conversion between a coded representation of a current block of a video and the current block, a motion vector difference (MVD) precision to be used for the conversion from a set of allowed multiple MVD precisions applicable to a v...