US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY on March 31 for "Encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and device therefor" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,030, issued on March 31, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Encoding and decoding method and apparatus, and device therefor" was invented by Yucheng Sun (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses, coder-side devices and decoder-side devices are provided, the method includes: obtaining a weighted prediction angle and weight configuration parameters of the current block; where the weight configuration parameters include a weight transform rate and a weight transform start position; configuring reference weight values for surrounding posi...