US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on May 12 for "Picture header presence" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,826, issued on May 12, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Picture header presence" 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 picture from a bitstream. In one embodiment, The method includes: receiving a slice header for a slice of the picture, wherein the slice header comprises a state syntax element; decoding a state value from the state syntax element in the slice header, wherein a) if the state value is not equal to a first value, then the state value indicates...