US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Nov. 11 for "Inter layer prediction with different coding block size" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,695, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Inter layer prediction with different coding block size" was invented by Zhipin Deng (Beijing) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video unit of a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that, for a given picture to be available as a reference picture whose motion information is used for the conversi...