ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,797, issued on July 1, was assigned to Guangdong Baolun Electronics Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).

"Method for implementing coding and decoding of YUV444 image on basis of H.265" was invented by Hongmeng Guo (Guangdong, China), Changhua Zhang (Guangdong, China), Zhenghui Zhu (Guangdong, China) and Dingjin Zhao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing the coding and decoding of a YUV444 image on the basis of H.265 includes acquiring a 1080p YUV444 image, and extracting a Y component, a U component and a V component from the 1080p YUV444 image; dividing a target image into 4 areas, wherein the 4 areas are...