US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Methods for encoding and decoding pictures and associated apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,023, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan Guangdong, China).

"Methods for encoding and decoding pictures and associated apparatus" was invented by Junyan Huo (Dongguan, China), Shuai Wan (Dongguan, China), Yanzhuo Ma (Dongguan, China), Haixin Wang (Dongguan, China) and Fuzheng Yang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a picture, a method for encoding a picture, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The method for encoding a picture includes (i) determining a width and a height of a coding block in the picture; (ii) if the width and the height...