US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Jan. 20 for "Coding of pictures containing slices and tiles" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,991, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Coding of pictures containing slices and tiles" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Kui Fan (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Hongbin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video picture that includes one or more tiles and one or more rectangular slices a...