US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 28 for "Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods for improved compression ratios" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,323, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods for improved compression ratios" was invented by Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Semih Esenlik (Munich), Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Han Gao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of decoding of a video or picture bitstream implemented by a decoding device are described. The bitstream can include data representing a current video coding layer. Furthermore, when determining that the current video coding layer is the only one layer in the b...