ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,041, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Coded video processing using enhanced secondary transform" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Tianliang Fu (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing) and Siwei Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video block of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies whether or how usage of a secondary transform within a video unit is indicated in the bitstream. The secondary transform is applied bef...