US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on July 14 for "Signalling required NAL units" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,173, issued on July 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signalling required NAL units" was invented by Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder is informed that a first NAL unit cannot be discarded by the decoder through at least one of: a profile indicated by a value of a profile identifier in a parameter set, the first type being indicative of a second NAL unit type, the second NAL unit type being a NAL unit in the NAL unit stream that is not required for the decoding of chroma or luma samples by the decoder, the first NAL unit being preceded by a Required Container NAL...