US Patent Issued to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, BYTEDANCE on Sept. 8 for "Adaptive dependent quantization" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,612, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angelels, Calif.).

"Adaptive dependent quantization" was invented by Yang Wang (Beijing), Li Zhang (San Diego), Kai Zhang (San Diego), Zhipin Deng (Beijing) and Na Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing video data includes selecting a first dependent quantization (DQ) parameter to be applied to a first video unit within a sequence; selecting a second DQ parameter to be applied to a second video unit within the sequence, wherein the second DQ parameter is different from the first DQ para...