US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Feb. 24 for "Video data encoding and decoding using a coded picture buffer whose size is defined by parameter data" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,211, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Video data encoding and decoding using a coded picture buffer whose size is defined by parameter data" was invented by Stephen Mark Keating (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Karl James Sharman (Basingstoke, Great Britain) and Adrian Richard Browne (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a video data decoder and a coded picture buffer to buffer successive portions of an input video data and provide a portion to the video data decoder for decoding. The video data decoder is responsive to parameter data associated with the input video...