US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Decoding method, encoding method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,701, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Decoding method, encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Liang Wei (Hangzhou, China), Fangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Li Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method and apparatus, and an encoding method and apparatus for a picture are provided, and relate to the field of video encoding and decoding. The decoding method includes: analyzing a code stream to obtain one or more picture frames, wherein a picture frame comprises one or more coding units (CUs); determining a plurality of quantizati...