US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for streaming extensions for video encoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,637, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for streaming extensions for video encoding" was invented by Sorin C Cismas (Saratoga, Calif.) and Ganesh G Yadav (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to systems and methods of streaming extensions for video encoding. The streaming extensions may enable the bitstream syntax for layered video data to be modified to reduce overhead for encoding. The bitstream syntax may be modified to enable variable length luma and chroma components, and enable the alignment between the layers and slice to be bit aligned ...