US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Oct. 28 for "Sub-block based intra block copy" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,327, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Sub-block based intra block copy" was invented by 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 determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream of the video, that the current block is split into multiple sub-blocks, wherein at least one of the multiple blocks is coded using a modified intra-block copy (IBC) coding technique that uses reference samples from one or...