US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Aug. 11 for "Filter shape switch for adaptive loop filter in video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,098, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Filter shape switch for adaptive loop filter in video coding" was invented by Wenbin Yin (Beijing), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Li Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A filter is applied to a video unit. The filter employs an extended tap for a first sample in the video unit and a spatial tap for a second sample in the video unit. A conversion is performed between a visual media data and a bitstream based on the video unit."

The patent was fil...