US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Sept. 23 for "Classification in adaptive loop filtering" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,585, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Classification in adaptive loop filtering" 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 of a block of a video picture in a video and a bitstream representation of the video, gradients of a subset of samples in a region for a classification operation in a filtering process. The region has a dimension of MxN and the block has a dimension of KxL, M, ...