US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Jan. 13 for "Handling video unit boundaries and virtual boundaries" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,407, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Handling video unit boundaries and virtual boundaries" 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 includes determining, for a conversion between a picture of a video that includes one or more blocks and a bitstream representation of the video, whether a virtual boundary is enabled for a block within the picture for a filtering process based on a rule related to a relationship between a...