ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,072, issued on March 18, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Video decoding method and apparatus, computerreadable medium, and electronic device" was invented by Liqiang Wang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaozhong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Shan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method includes performing entropy decoding processing on a code block of a video image frame of a video image frame sequence, to obtain a quantization coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the code block; collecting statistics of quantization coefficients in a target region in the quantization...