US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on May 27 for "Reference picture information signaling in a video bitstream" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,878, issued on May 27, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Reference picture information signaling in a video bitstream" was invented by Ye-kui Wang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Jizheng Xu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video processing method is provided to include performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies a condition that controls whether or how one or more syntax elements related t...