ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,973, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for bit-width control for bi-directional optical flow" was invented by Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego) and Xianglin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a bit-width control method of bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) for coding a video signal. The method includes determining a first reference picture I(0) and a second reference picture I(1) associated with a video block, determining first prediction samples I(0)(i,j) of the video block from a refere...