US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Aug. 5 for "Video picture decoding and encoding method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,026, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Video picture decoding and encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Xu Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Jianhua Zheng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a video picture decoding and encoding method and a video picture decoding and encoding apparatus. When it is determined that a merge or skip mode is used, if it is determined through decoding that a merge mode with motion vector difference (MMVD) indicator is true, a triangle prediction unit (PU) indicator may not be coded. The triangle PU indicator is coded ...