ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,699, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, and electronic device" was invented by Gong Hu (Hangzhou, China), Yufeng Lu (Hangzhou, China), Cheng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Peiyun Di (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide an encoding method, a decoding method, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a current frame; obtaining a reconstructed picture corresponding to a reference frame of the current frame from an external reference list of an encoder, where the reference frame of the current ...