ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,484, issued on June 17, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China) and GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Encoding method, decoding method, and decoder" was invented by Lu Yu (Guangdong, China), Yaqing Pan (Guangdong, China), Hualong Yu (Guangdong, China), Zhihuang Xie (Guangdong, China) and Zhenyu Dai (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an encoding method, a decoding method, an encoder, a decoder, and a storage medium. The method includes the following. An encoding result of a current block, a target index for the current block, and a...