ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,132, issued on July 14, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Operation range extension for versatile 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: "A video decoder decodes a video from a video bitstream encoded using Versatile Video Coding (VVC). The video decoder determines a bit depth of samples of the video based on Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) syntax element sps_bitdepth_minus8 whose value is in the range of 0 to 8. The decoder further determines the size of a decoded picture buffer (DPB) based on a Video ...