US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,804, issued on June 30, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and device" was invented by Dongping Pan (Hangzhou, China), Xiaoyang Wu (Hangzhou, China), Yucheng Sun (Hangzhou, China) and Fangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an encoding and decoding method, apparatus and device. The method comprises: when a reference pixel of a current block is not available, removing a target prediction mode from an initial prediction mode list corresponding to the current block, so as to obtain a target predic...