ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,429, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Picture encoding method and apparatus, picture decoding method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Pinlong Cai (Shenzhen, China), Zhao Wu (Shenzhen, China), Ping Wu (Shenzhen, China), Ying Gao (Shenzhen, China) and Shaowei Xie (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a picture encoding method, a picture encoding apparatus, a picture decoding method, a picture decoding apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. The encoding method includes: acquiring a video picture, and determining a picture feature of...