ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,042, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Fusion mode 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 method of processing media data. The method includes fusing a plurality of intermediate filtering results of an adaptive loop filter (ALF) processing unit with a fusion mode to generate a final filtering result; and performing a conversion between a video including the ALF processing unit and a bitstream of the video based on the final f...