ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,075, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture data encoding method and apparatus and picture data decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Shan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a decoding method includes: obtaining a bitstream including picture data; parsing the bitstream to obtain node split mode information of a first-level coding tree and node split mode information of a second-level coding tree, if the split mode corresponding to the first node is no ...