ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,897, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video encoding method and apparatus, video decoding method and apparatus, and device" was invented by Liqiang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method includes: decoding a target coding unit to obtain a quantization coefficient matrix corresponding to the target coding unit; determining first reference information according to a quantization coefficient in the quantization coefficient matrix; obtaining a value of a target flag bit corresponding to the first reference information, the target flag bit being a flag b...