ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,756, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Partial/full pruning when adding a HMVP candidate to merge/AMVP" 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: "A method of video processing is provided to include: maintaining a set of tables, wherein each table includes motion candidates and each motion candidate is associated with corresponding motion information; updating a motion candidate list based on motion candidates in one or more tables using a pruning oper...