ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,061, issued on March 31, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Decoding method and apparatus, coding method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by 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: "Decoding methods and apparatuses, coding methods and apparatuses, devices and machine-readable storage media are provided. In an example of the decoding method, for a received bitstream, by parsing a motion information index value of a skip mode or a direct mode of a current coding unit, a candidate li...