ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,233, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Scalable encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Jue Mao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Jing Wang (Beijing) and Ze Cui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a scalable encoding and decoding method and apparatus. The encoding method includes: applying a control signal of a first signal component of a video signal to a first feature map of the first signal component, to obtain a second feature map of the first signal component, where the control signal of the first signal component...