US Patent Issued to BYTEDANCE on May 19 for "Context coding for transform skip mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,431, issued on May 19, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Context coding for transform skip mode" was invented by Weijia Zhu (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego) and Jizheng Xu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for coefficient coding in transform skip mode are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for encoding one or more video blocks in a video region of a visual media data into a bitstream representation of the visual media data, a maximum allowed dimension up to which a current video block of the one or more video blocks is allowed to be encoded using...