US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Image encoding and decoding method and apparatus" (Chinese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,965, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image encoding and decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Yixuan Zhang (Singapore), Shaolin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Yi Song (Shenzhen, China) and Peiyun Di (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an image encoding and decoding method and apparatus. The method may include: reading a first sub-image of a first frame of image from a first memory, and storing the first sub-image into a second memory, where the first memory is an off-chip memory, and the second memory is an on-chip memory; encoding a base laye...