US Patent Issued to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES on July 8 for "Image encoding method and apparatus, and image decoding method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,989, issued on July 8, was assigned to SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image encoding method and apparatus, and image decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Yongbing Lin (Beijing) and Sha Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding method includes a color difference signal Cr corresponding to a first pixel and a color difference signal Cb corresponding to a second pixel that are determined based on a pixel value of the first pixel, a pixel value of the second pixel, and pixel values of a third pixel and a fourth pixel that are adjacent to the first pixel. Then, an average...