ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,303, issued on April 7, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Video encoding method and apparatus, video decoding method and apparatus, and device, system and storage medium" was invented by Luhang Xu (Dongguan, China) and Hang Huang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method according to the present invention includes: decoding a bitstream, to obtain P quantization coefficients of a current region; determining, according to the P quantization coefficients, parity of a quantization coefficient whose parity is hidden of a first quantization coefficient; det...