ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,584, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Decoding, encoding, and encoding/decoding methods, apparatuses and devices" was invented by Xiaoqiang Cao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding, encoding, and encoding/decoding methods, apparatuses and devices are provided. A decoding method includes: if an inter prediction filter enable flag indicates that a current block is allowed to be coded in inter prediction filter mode, and the current block satisfies inter prediction filter conditions, parsing an inter prediction filter flag of the current block fro...