ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,696, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods about signaling high level syntax" was invented by Anand Meher Kotra (Munich), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Han Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coding is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a bitstream for a coding block; obtaining a value of a syntax from the bitstream; obtaining a value of deblocking control parameter for chroma component of a slice of a coded picture from the bitstream, when the valu...