US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE, BYTEDANCE (HK) on June 16 for "Unified neural network filter model" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,474, issued on June 16, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing), BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles) and BYTEDANCE (HK) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Unified neural network filter model" was invented by Yue Li (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Junru Li (Beijing), Meng Wang (Beijing), Siwei Ma (Beijing) and Shiqi Wang (Kowloon, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a video coding apparatus. The method includes applying a first filter to an unfiltered sample of a video unit to generate a filtered sample. The first filter is a neural network (NN) filter based on a non-deep lea...