ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,012, issued on April 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).
"Coding method, encoder, and decoder" was invented by Fan Wang (Dongguan, China) and Zhihuang Xie (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a coding method, an encoder, and a decoder. The decoder decodes a bitstream to determine a context mode flag of a current block, determines an initial value of a quantity parameter according to the context mode flag, and determines coefficients of the current block using at least one of a context mode or a bypass mode according to the initial...