ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,911, issued on July 28, 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 to obtain a residual block of the current block. The current block is predicted based on a first prediction mode and a second pr...