ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,171, issued on July 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Decoding method, encoding method, decoder, and encoder" was invented by Fan Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method, an encoding method, a decoder, and an encoder are provided. The decoding method includes the following. A bitstream is decoded to obtain a first transform coefficient of a current block. A first transform is performed on the first transform coefficient of the current block to obtain a second transform coefficient of the current block. A second transform is performed on the secon...