US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on April 15 for "Video encoding and decoding method and apparatus based on non-zero coefficient absolute level, computer-readable medium, and electronic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,975, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video encoding and decoding method and apparatus based on non-zero coefficient absolute level, computer-readable medium, and electronic device" was invented by Ye Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Liqiang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method includes: determining current coefficients to-be-decoded in a coding block of a video image frame; obtaining a flag combination corresponding to the current coefficients, the flag combination including at least two coefficient absolute level threshold flags; decoding the coeffici...