ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,114, issued on July 14, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Yucheng Sun (Hangzhou, China), Xiaoqiang Cao (Hangzhou, China), Fangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Li Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an encoding and decoding method, apparatus and device. The method includes: obtaining a weight prediction angle and weight configuration parameters; configuring reference weight values for surrounding positions outside the current block; determining a surrounding...