US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on July 8 for "Restriction of applicability for intra block copy mode" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,983, issued on July 8, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Restriction of applicability for intra block copy mode" 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 video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether an intra block copy (IBC) mode in which a prediction block for the current video block is calculated based on a block vector in a picture...