US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on July 15 for "Coding and decoding of video coding modes" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,337, issued on July 15, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Coding and decoding of video coding modes" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a video includes performing a conversion between a current block of visual media data and a corresponding coded representation of the visual media data. The conversion of the current block includes determining whether a use of one or both of a bi-directional optical flow (BIO) techn...