US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Supplemental enhancement information including confidence level and mixed content information" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,203, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Supplemental enhancement information including confidence level and mixed content information" was invented by Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to video encoding and decoding, and specifically to tools and techniques for using and providing supplemental enhancement information in bitstreams. Among other things, the detailed description presents innovations for bitstreams having supplemental enhancement information (SEI). In particular embodiments, the S...