ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,005, issued on April 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Video decoding method, video encoding method, and video decoder" was invented by Zhenyu Dai (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide video decoding method, a video encoding method, and a video decoder. A decoding end operates as follows. A bitstream is decoded and a reconstructed block of a current block is determined. The bitstream is decoded and a first quantization parameter (QP) of the current block is determined, where the first QP is determined based on a second Q...