ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,647, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Using quantization groups in video coding" was invented by Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Jizheng Xu (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Ye-kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video processing includes applying, in a conversion between a video comprising multiple components and a bitstream representation of the video, a deblocking filter to video blocks of the multiple components. A deblocking filter strength for the deblocking filter of each of the multiple components is determined according to a rule that s...