ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,014, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses" was invented by Dongping Pan (Hangzhou, China), Yucheng Sun (Hangzhou, China), Fangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China), Xiaoqiang Cao (Hangzhou, China) and Liang Wei (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a video encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a decoding end, a code stream of a unit to be decoded; determining a scanning manner and a grouping manner of the unit to be decoded, and an coding manner corr...