ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,093, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).
"Guided filter in video coding" was invented by Wenbin Yin (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Yang Wang (Beijing) and Hongbin Liu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A conversion is performed between a visual media data including a video unit and a bitstream. The conversion can be performed by a video encoder and/or a video decoder. The video unit is reconstructed, and a guided filter is applied to reconstructed samples in the video...