ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,640, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video decoding method, video encoding method, and related apparatuses" was invented by Liqiang Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method includes: performing entropy decoding processing on an encoding block of a video image frame to obtain a quantized coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the encoding block; calculating quantization coefficients in the quantized coefficient block to obtain an implicitly derived index value; determining a transformation mode of the encoding block according to the imp...