ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,647, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Condition dependent video block partition" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for video processing are described. In a representative aspect, there is disclosed a method for video processing, including: determining, for a current video block, whether a first partition mode is applicable to the current video block in responsive to at least one condition, ...