ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,782, issued on July 1, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Transform skip residual coding" was invented by Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Ye-kui Wang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Zhipin Deng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video unit and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies whether a transform skip residual coding operation is enabled for the video unit. O...