Patents by Inventor Kai Zhang

Kai Zhang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11968361
    Abstract: In an exemplary aspect, a method for visual media processing includes identifying a boundary at a vertical edge and/or a horizontal edge of two video blocks; calculating a boundary strength of a filter based on at least one of the two video blocks crossing a vertical edge or a horizontal edge is coded using a combined intra-inter prediction (CIIP) mode; deciding whether to turn on or off the filter; selecting a strength of the filter in case the filter is turned on; and performing, based on the selecting, a deblocking filter (DB) process to the video blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Weijia Zhu, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11968402
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. A method for processing video includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies whether a syntax element in a sequence parameter set (SPS) based on a value of a general constraint flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Kui Fan
  • Patent number: 11968377
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for sub-block based prediction are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes determining a block size constrain, making a determination, based on the block size constrain, about whether or not a merge affine mode and a non-merge affine mode are allowed for a video block in a video frame, and generating a bitstream representation of the video block based on the making the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11968384
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods related to digital video coding, and specifically, to signaling of slice types in video picture headers are described. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more video pictures including one or more slices and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream conforms to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies that for a video picture of the one or more video pictures having all slices coded as I slices, P slice and B slice related syntax elements are omitted from a picture header for the video picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Zhipin Deng, Jizheng Xu, Ye-kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20240129466
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems related to video processing are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a block of a current picture of a video and a coded representation of the video using an intra-subblock partitioning (ISP) mode. A prediction is determined for each sub-partition using an intra-prediction process based on samples in the current picture using the ISP mode. The block is partitioned into multiple sub-partitions including a first sub-partitions having a same top-left corner position as a top-left corner position of the block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Zhipin Deng, Na Zhang, Yue Wang
  • Publication number: 20240129539
    Abstract: A method includes making a determination, according to a rule, about whether a height of a subpicture of a video picture of a video is less than a height of a tile row of the video picture; and performing, using the determination, a conversion between the video and a bitstream of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240129462
    Abstract: A method of video processing is described. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video unit of a video including one or more video blocks and a bitstream representation of the video, a padding process used for padding unavailable samples during application of a cross-component adaptive loop filtering (CC-ALF) tool to at least some video blocks of the current video unit according to a rule; and performing the conversion based on the determining. The rule specifies that the padding process is also used for padding unavailable samples during application of an adaptive loop filtering (ALF) tool to one or more video blocks of the current video unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Yue Wang
  • Publication number: 20240127464
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. An example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures including one or more subpictures and a bitstream of the video. The one or more pictures and/or the one or more subpictures are included into the bitstream according to an order rule. The order rule specifies a relationship between a position of a current instantaneous decoder refresh (IDR) picture or a current IDR subpicture in the bitstream with respect to another picture referred to by an entry in a reference picture list for a current slice of the current IDR picture or the current IDR subpicture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ye-Kui WANG, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240129540
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. The processing may include encoding, decoding or transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a syntax element is included in a profile, tier, level information syntax structure to indicate whether one or more general constraint information syntax elements are included in a general constraint information syntax structure and/or whether the general constraint information syntax structure is included in the profile, tier, level information syntax structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240126421
    Abstract: An object processing method includes: displaying a first operation interface in response to triggering a first operation control of a first stage of a target object, the first operation interface including at least one first operation item; displaying a content input interface in response to completing an operation for the at least one first operation item, the content input interface including at least one input item; in response to completion of content input for the at least one input item, determining a second target value and generating a second operation control corresponding to a second stage of the target object; displaying a second operation interface in response to triggering the second operation control, the second operation interface including at least one second operation item; and updating the state of the target object to a completed state in response to completing an operation for the second operation item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kai ZHANG, Ying SONG, Qing GUO, Chunyan XIA, Yu SUN, Qikang REN, Jingjing ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240129545
    Abstract: A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a sub-bitstream extraction process is implemented to generate a sub-bitstream for decoding. The sub-bitstream extraction process is configured to extract, from the bitstream, a sub-bitstream with a target highest temporal identifier. The rule specifies that, during the extracting, upon removing a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit, filler data units and filler supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages in SEI NAL units that are associated with the VCL NAL unit are also removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240129541
    Abstract: Embodiments for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies that only one of two conditions is true when a number of subpictures minus 1 indicated by a first syntax element in a sequence parameter set is greater than zero and when a current subpicture with a subpicture index subpicIdx of a first video picture of the video has a second syntax element in the sequence parameter set indicates that a subpicture with the subpicture index subpicIdx of each video picture of the video in a coded layer video sequence is treated as a video picture in a decoding process that excludes an in-loop filtering operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240129478
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present method provide a solution for processing video data is proposed. The method comprises: determining, during a conversion between a target block of a video and a bitstream of the video, based on coding information of a geometric partitioning merge mode, whether a motion refinement is applied to a target unit of the target block in the geometric partitioning merge mode. The method also comprises performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240129489
    Abstract: Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of processing video data includes determining, for a conversion between a video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, a gradient of a prediction vector at a sub-block level for the video block according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies to use a same gradient value is assigned for all samples within a sub-block of the video block; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Yuwen He, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Tianliang Fu, Junru Li, Siwei Ma
  • Publication number: 20240129538
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures comprising one or more slices and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a predefined order between a position of a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit in a picture unit carrying an adaptation parameter set information and a second NAL unit that is a last video coding layer (VCL) NAL unit in the picture unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Ye-kui Wang, Kai Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240129518
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present method provide a method for processing video data is proposed. The method comprises: determining, during a conversion between a target block of a video and a bitstream of the video, a motion refinement process for the target block from a plurality of motion refinement processes used for the target block; applying the motion refinement process to the target block; and performing the conversion between the target block and the bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Zhipin DENG, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11962799
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for encoding and decoding digital video using a look-up tables (LUTs) containing motion candidates are described. In a representative aspect, a method of video processing includes maintaining one or more tables, wherein at least one table of the one or more tables is associated with one or more entries, deriving, based on a first set of motion candidates in the at least one table, a second set of motion candidates, and performing, based on the second set of motion candidates, a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11962814
    Abstract: A method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video picture including one or more tiles and a bitstream of the video. The video picture refers to a picture parameter set, and the picture parameter set conforms to a format rule specifying that the picture parameter set includes a list of column widths for N tile columns, where N is an integer. An (N?1)-th tile column exists in the video picture and the (N?1)-th tile column has a width that is equal to an (N?1)-th entry in a list of explicitly included tile column widths plus one number of coding tree blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Ye-kui Wang, Zhipin Deng, Kui Fan, Jizheng Xu, Hongbin Liu
  • Patent number: 11962754
    Abstract: A method of video decoding includes checking one or more video blocks in pre-defined relative positions compared to a first video block to derive a first set of candidates, wherein each of the first set of candidates is derived from corresponding motion information of the video blocks checked, checking, upon a determination that a number of the first set of candidates has not reached a predetermined limit, one or multiple tables to derive a second set of candidates, and processing the first video block based on a bitstream representation of the first video block and the constructed candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11962771
    Abstract: An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a picture of a video and a bitstream representation of the video. The picture includes one or more sub-pictures, and the bitstream representation conforms to a format rule that specifies that a length of a syntax element is equal to Ceil(Log 2(SS)) bits. SS is greater than 0, and the syntax element indicating a horizontal or a vertical position of a top-left corner of a coding tree unit of a sub-picture of the picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng, Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Jizheng Xu