ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,733, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Entropy encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Jue Mao (Hangzhou, China), Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiang Ma (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology of this application relates to an entropy encoding method that includes obtaining base layer information of a to-be-encoded picture block, where the base layer information corresponds to M samples in the picture block, and M is a positive integer, obtaining K elements corresponding to enhancement layer information of the picture block, where the enhancement lay...