ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,057, issued on March 17, was assigned to BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Video predictive coding method and apparatus" was invented by Tongbing Cui (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for video predictive coding. The method includes: acquiring decision information related to a current coding block in inter-frame predictive coding, wherein the decision information includes one of: pre-analysis information determined by a coder in a lightweight video coding pre-analysis, coding information of a plurality of sub-blocks acquired by recursively coding the current coding block, and information of ...