ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,926, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles, Canada).
"Guided filter usage" was invented by Wenbin Yin (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Yang Wang (Beijing) and Hongbin Liu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A conversion is performed between a visual media data including a plurality of video units and a bitstream. A guided filter is applied to samples in the video units. The guided filter is applied at a post decoding stage, such as in an in-loop filtering process."
The pate...