ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,227, issued on March 3, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for picture decoding/encoding, decoder, encoder, and computer program using flag enabled cross-decoding and cross-encoding of color components" was invented by Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China), Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China) and Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for picture decoding, a method for picture encoding, a decoder, and an encoder are provided. The method includes the following. A bitstream corresponding to a current picture is acquired. The bitstream is parsed to obtain a flag cor...