ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,174, issued on July 14, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Restrictions on in-loop filtering" was invented by Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Jizheng Xu (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding. A method for video processing includes determining whether to apply and how to apply a filtering process for samples of a current video unit of a video based on whether the samples are located at predefined transform boundaries; and performing a conversion bet...