US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Feb. 17 for "Video coding method and apparatus, medium, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,696, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video coding method and apparatus, medium, and electronic device" was invented by Wei Kuang (Shenzhen, China) and Hongbin Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of video coding and decoding technologies, and specifically, to a video coding method and apparatus, a medium, and an electronic device. The video coding method includes obtaining a current video frame, and determining a reference frame used when coding the current video frame; searching for partition modes used for performing block part...