ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,807, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods using DCT2 enabled high level flag" was invented by Han Gao (Shenzhen, China), Jianle Chen (San Diego), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Biao Wang (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video coding a block of a picture includes: obtaining a residual signal resulting from inter- or intra-picture prediction; inferring use of a DCT2 transform core for a sequence of the residual signal; processing the transformation of the block using the inferred transform core."

The pate...