US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Nov. 18 for "Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods and apparatus" (Chinese, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,154, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods and apparatus" was invented by Xiang Ma (Moscow) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a coded video bitstream is provided. The method includes: obtaining a reference layer syntax element by parsing the coded video bitstream, wherein a value of the reference layer syntax element specifying whether a layer with index k is a direct reference layer for a layer with index i; determining whether the layer with index j is a reference layer for the layer with ind...