ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,671, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).
"Interaction between Intra Block Copy mode and inter prediction tools" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to interaction between intra block copy mode and inter prediction tools. A method for video processing includes determining that an intra block copy (IBC) mode is applied to a current video block of a video. In the IBC mode, at least one reference picture used by the curre...