US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Aug. 12 for "Prediction refinement for affine merge and affine motion vector prediction mode" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,989, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Prediction refinement for affine merge and affine motion vector prediction mode" was invented by Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Jizheng Xu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining, for a conversion between a video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, a size of prediction block corresponding to the video block according to a rule. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determin...