ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,940, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).
"Definition of zero unit" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Hsiao Chiang Chuang (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for using zero-units in video and image coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for processing video, including: determining, for a conversion between a block of the video and a bitstream of the video, that the block is a zero-unit (ZU) block based on one or more dime...