US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 3 for "Distributed decoding refresh in video coding" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,211, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Distributed decoding refresh in video coding" was invented by Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Moscow), Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and Fnu Hendry (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video encoding a sequence of pictures, the method being implemented in an encoding device and comprising: obtaining an intra prediction picture comprising at least two sub-units; obtaining a first encoded other picture, wherein the intra prediction picture and the first encoded other picture have the same Picture Order Count, POC, value; obtaining encoded othe...