ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,087, issued on March 17, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, bitstream, encoder, decoder and storage medium" was invented by Hui Yuan (Dongguan, China), Dongran Jiang (Dongguan, China), Yanhan Chu (Dongguan, China), Ye Yang (Dongguan, China) and Ming Li (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method includes: a first matching block of a current block is determined; motion compensation enhancement is performed on the first matching block to obtain at least one second matching block; motion information of the current block is dete...