ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,042, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Decoding method, encoding method, and related device" was invented by Danni Wang (Xi'an, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Yi Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Junkai Feng (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a decoding method. The method includes: obtaining a bitstream of a first coding unit, where the first coding unit is at least one coding unit in a plurality of coding units; determining an end decrease step, wherein the end decrease step is used to update a virtual padding amount of the plurality ...