ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,096, issued on March 17, was assigned to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING Ltd. (George Town, Cayman Islands).
"Method and apparatus for encoding or decoding video" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiancong Luo (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes coding one or more first flags in a sequence parameter set (SPS) of a bitstream, and coding at least one second flag in the SPS if one or more coding modes are enabled for a video sequence associated with the SPS. The one or more f...