ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,457, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, bitstream, encoder, decoder, system and storage medium" was invented by Zhenyu Dai (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method includes: parsing bitstream to determine value of first syntax element identification information; determining, when the identification information indicates that preset selection network model is enabled to be used to perform model decision for current block, at least two output values according to preset selection network model. The at least ...