ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,367, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture reconstruction method and apparatus" was invented by Yin Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China), Riyang Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Zhongliang Li (Beijing) and Lian Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a picture reconstruction method and apparatus for a video picture. The picture reconstruction method includes: obtaining a prediction mode of a current coding unit, and/or obtaining a prediction partition mode of the current coding unit, where the current coding unit incl...