ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,954, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Bypass alignment in video coding" was invented by Yue Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Haoping Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, a method and system for encoding a picture of a video including a coding block, and a method and system for decoding a picture of a video including a coding block are provided. In the method for encoding a picture of a video, a coefficient of each position in the coding block to is quantized by a processor to generate a quantization level of the respective position...