US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on March 4 for "Symmetric motion vector difference coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,817, issued on March 4, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Agneles, Calif.).

"Symmetric motion vector difference coding" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Symmetric motion vector difference coding is described. One example video processing method includes determining, for a conversion between a block of a current picture of video and a bitstream representation of the block, whether a symmetric motion vector difference (SMVD) mode is allowable for the ...