US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on May 20 for "Decoding method, inter-view prediction method, decoder, and encoder" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,425, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China) and GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Decoding method, inter-view prediction method, decoder, and encoder" was invented by Lu Yu (Dongguan, China), Chuchu Wang (Dongguan, China), Sicheng Li (Dongguan, China), Zhihuang Xie (Dongguan, China) and Zhenyu Dai (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method, a decoder, and an encoder are provided. A view synthesis technology is used to obtain, according to a reference view image, a synthesized image of a view to be encoded, comprising a texture image and a de...