US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on June 17 for "Intra block copy coding and decoding" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,531, issued on June 17, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Intra block copy coding and decoding" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Hongbin Liu (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 current block of a video and a coded representation of the video, whether a syntax element indicating usage of a skip mode for an intra-block copy (IBC) coding model is included in the coded representation according to a rule that specifies that signalin...