US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Nov. 18 for "Sub-block based prediction" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,106, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Sub-block based prediction" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video processing includes: determining, that the video block is split into a plurality of sub-blocks based on a condition associated with the video block, refining motion information of each sub-block using a motion refinement process, the motion refinement process being a one-step or an iterative multi-step refinement process; and...