US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 20 for "Method and apparatus for signaling of mapping function of chroma quantization parameter" (Russian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,372, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for signaling of mapping function of chroma quantization parameter" was invented by Sergey Yurievich Ikonin (Moscow), Roman Igorevich Chernyak (Moscow), Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev (Moscow), Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov (Moscow), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining a chrominance quantization parameter (QP) for chrominance components based on a luminance QP for a luminance component, wherein the method is performed by a decoder, and comprise...