US Patent Issued to Bytedance on Aug. 25 for "Signaling of picture-in-picture in media files" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,116, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Signaling of picture-in-picture in media files" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A type for a value taken by a region identifier (ID) in a region identifier (ID) type field (region_id_type) is determined. The type for the value taken by the region ID is coded in the region ID type field using four or less bits. A conversion between the visual media data and a media data file is performed based on the type for the value taken by the region ID in the region ID type field."

The ...