ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,032, issued on June 23, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Video coding layer up-switching indication" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden) and Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a set of pictures from a bitstream. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a layer access (LA) indication identifying an LA picture in an access unit, wherein i) the LA picture has a layer identifier value that identifies a layer and ii) the LA picture is followed by other pictures in a decoding order. The metho...