ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,108, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).
"Separate tree coding restrictions" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Xi Xie (Beijing), Junru Li (Beijing) and Meng Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data implemented by a video coding apparatus is disclosed. The mechanism determines usage of one or more of a separate tree coding and a partitioning beyond a minimum size threshold for a video unit. The mechanism also disables a cross-component coding tool for the video unit based on the ...