US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Dec. 16 for "Video decoder initialization information signaling" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,042, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Video decoder initialization information signaling" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Na Zhang (Beijing) and Yang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A parent block is partitioned with an Extended Ternary-Tree (ETT) partition to create three sub-blocks. At least one of the sub-blocks includes a side with a measurement that is not a power of two. A conversion is performed between a visual media da...