ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,054, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Feature based transform selection" was invented by Jing Cui (Beijing), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for processing visual data, a transform kernel of a current block of visual media is determined based on a feature of a neighboring area that neighbors the current block or based on a sub-region of the neighboring area. A conversion between the visual media and a bitstream of the visual media is performed based on the transform ...