US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on April 21 for "Method for signaling picture in picture using preselection with external bitstream manipulation instructions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,062, issued on April 21, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for signaling picture in picture using preselection with external bitstream manipulation instructions" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) bitstream; determining that the DASH bitstream includes a preselection element for multiplexing a plurality of media segments included in the DASH bitstream; parsing the plurality of media segments from the bitstream; multiplexing, by a DASH application, the plurality of segments using the preselect...