ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,634, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Disallowing unnecessary layers 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 is provided. The method includes receiving, by the video decoder, a video bitstream including a video parameter set (VPS) and a plurality of layers, where no layer is neither an output layer of at least one OLS nor a direct reference layer of any other layer; and decoding, by the video decoder, a picture from one of the plurality of layers. A method of encoding is also provided. The method in...