ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,760, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Image coding and decoding method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Fangdong Chen (Hangzhou, China) and Dongping Pan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses image coding and decoding methods and apparatuses, and a storage medium, relates to the field of image coding and decoding technologies, and helps to improve coding and decoding efficiency. An image decoding method includes: parsing a code stream to obtain a first syntax element, where the first syntax element includ...