ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,046, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and device for video coding and decoding" was invented by Xiaozhen Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Zhen Mao (Beijing), Ziyuan Wang (Beijing), Yun He (Beijing), Xiaozhong Xu (Beijing) and Jianhua Zheng (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for coding and decoding are disclosed. The method includes: dividing a picture to be encoded into several slices, each containing macroblocks continuous in a designated scanning sequence in the picture; dividing slices in the picture into one or more slice sets according to attribute...