ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,987, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Precoding encoding method and encoder for QP adjustment" was invented by Junkai Feng (Xi'an, China), Bo Qu (Xi'an, China) and Liping Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding method and an encoder are provided to improve image compression performance. An embodiment of the encoding method determines an encoding quantization parameter, QP, and precodes a to-be-encoded block using the encoding QP to obtain encoding result information. The encoding QP is then adjusted based on the encoding result information, and then real enc...