US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Oct. 27 for "Utilization of recursive prediction unit in video coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,144, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Utilization of recursive prediction unit in video coding" was invented by Kai Zhang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing), Na Zhang (Beijing) and Yang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data implemented by a video coding apparatus is disclosed. The mechanism determines to apply a prediction splitting tree to a prediction tree unit (PTU). The prediction splitting tree includes a leaf prediction unit (PU). A prediction mode is selected for the le...