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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,722, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Picture decoding method and apparatus, and picture encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Fangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Yan Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses picture decoding methods and apparatuses, and picture encoding methods and apparatuses, relating to the field of video coding and decoding technologies, and solving the problem of low prediction efficiency in a process of picture coding and decoding (or video coding and decoding). The picture decoding method ...