ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,154, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Simulcast layers for multiview in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes encoding a bitstream comprising one or more layers of coded pictures. A video parameter set (VPS) is also encoded into the bitstream. The VPS includes an each layer is an output layer set (OLS) flag (each_layer_is_an_ols_flag) when all layers specified by the VPS are independently coded without inter-layer prediction. The each_layer_is_an_ols_flag specifies whether each...