US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Avoidance of redundant signaling in multi-layer video bitstreams" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,236, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Avoidance of redundant signaling in multi-layer video bitstreams" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding includes receiving a bitstream having a plurality of layers and a video parameter set (VPS), where the VPS includes a direct reference layer flag, where the direct reference layer flag equal to a first value specifies that a second layer is not a direct reference layer for a first layer, and where the direct reference layer flag equal to a second value specifies that the second layer is the d...