US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Aug. 26 for "Interaction between merge list construction and other tools" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,820, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Interaction between merge list construction and other tools" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device, methods, and systems that enable the interaction of merge list construction with other tools and methods in video coding are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, based on a first threshold, a maximum number of history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidates t...