ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,667, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling text description information in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to decode video data based on information included in a text description information message. In one example, a text description information message includes a syntax element indicating a role of the text description information message. In one example, a text description information message includes a syntax element specifying a text description information string having...