US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "High level syntax for video coding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,006, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"High level syntax for video coding and decoding" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France), Patrice Onno (Rennes, France) and Nael Ouedraogo (Val d'Anast, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data from a bitstream, the bitstream comprising video data corresponding to multiple slices, wherein the bitstream comprises a header comprising syntax elements to be used when decoding one or more slices; wherein the decoding comprising parsing the picture header, parsing at least one APS ID related syntax element prior to syntax eleme...