US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on May 12 for "Harmonized local illumination compensation and modified inter coding tools" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,790, issued on May 12, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Harmonized local illumination compensation and modified inter coding tools" was invented by Hongbin Liu (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for video processing is provided to include: determining, based on an inheritance rule, whether to use a local illumination compensation (LIC) mode for a conversion between a current block of a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, and performing the conversion ba...