ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,604, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Decoding method, encoding method, and storage medium" was invented by Zhihuang Xie (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method, an encoding method, and a medium are provided. The decoding method includes the following. A bitstream is parsed to obtain a residual block of a current block. An optimal matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode for predicting the current block is determined based on distortion costs corresponding to multiple MIP modes, where the distortion costs corresponding to the multiple ...