ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,869, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image encoding, decoding method and device, coder-decoder" was invented by Lijie Zhang (Beijing) and Guannan Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of image processing technology, and in particular, to image encoding, decoding methods and devices, an encoder-decoder. The method includes: acquiring a visual saliency heat map of an image of a current frame, and filtering, by using the visual saliency heat map of the image of the current frame, the image of the current frame to obtain a target image; acquirin...