US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on April 29 for "Generalized bi directional prediction mode in video processing" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,466, issued on April 29, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Generalized bi directional prediction mode in video processing" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video processing is provided. The method includes: determining, for a conversion between a first video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, that a merge mode with motion vector differences is applied into the first video block; and performing the conversion based ...