ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,203, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding based on syntax element values" was invented by Xiang Ma (Moscow) and Haitao Yang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded video bitstream includes obtaining a sequence parameter set (SPS)-level syntax element from the bitstream, wherein that the SPS-level syntax element equaling a preset value specifies that no video parameter set (VPS) is referred to by a SPS, and wherein the SPS-level syntax element being greater than the preset value specifies that the SPS ...