US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on May 13 for "Sample identification for intra block copy in video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,793, issued on May 13, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Sample identification for intra block copy in video coding" was invented by Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video processing includes maintaining, for a conversion between a current video block of a current picture of a visual media data and a bitstream representation of the visual media data, a buffer including reference samples from the current picture for a derivation of prediction...