ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,020, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Cross-component adaptive loop filtering in video coding" was invented by Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Kai Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video processing includes making a determination, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, whether a cross-component adaptive loop filtering tool is enabled for the current video block based on a color property of the video. The method also includes performing the conversion according to th...