US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Aug. 5 for "Size restriction for intra-block copy virtual buffer" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,016, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Size restriction for intra-block copy virtual buffer" was invented by Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Hongbin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video processing is described. The method may include making a decision, for a conversion between a current video block of a video picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, regarding a size of a reference region of the video picture from which reference samples are used for predicting t...