ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,129, issued on July 14, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Cross random access point signaling enhancements" was invented by Ye-kui Wang (San Diego), Yang Wang (Beijing) 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. One or more random access picture (RAP) picture identifiers are signaled for one or more Cross RAP Referencing (CRR) pictures. A conversion is performed between a visual media data and a bitstream based on the one or more RAP picture identifiers."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2023, under...