US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on May 19 for "Prediction precision improvements in video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,477, issued on May 19, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Prediction precision improvements in video coding" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Hongbin Liu (Beijing) and Yue Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for digital video coding, which includes inter prediction with refinement, are described. An exemplary method of video processing includes determining to use, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a first linear optimization model for t...