US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 26 for "Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods" (Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,292, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods" was invented by Xiang Ma (Moscow) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded video bitstream is provided, the method comprising: obtaining, from the coded video bitstream, a first syntax element specifying whether the first layer use inter-layer prediction; obtaining, from the coded video bitstream, one or more second syntax elements related to one or more second layers, each second syntax element specifies whether a second layer is a direct reference l...