US Patent Issued to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software on July 21 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding series of data" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,618, issued on July 21, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding series of data" was invented by Sebastien Lasserre (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of encoding a series of data into a bitstream, includes: obtaining a current neighborhood configuration relative to a current data of the series of data, the set of candidate neighborhood configurations being obtained from previously encoded data of the series of data; obtaining a reduced current neighborhood configuration by applying a dynamic reduction function to the current neighborhood configuration...