US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on June 30 for "Signaling of inter layer prediction in video bitstream" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,842, issued on June 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Signaling of inter layer prediction in video bitstream" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of video decoding includes receiving a scalable bitstream including a first layer and determining whether the first layer is a dependent layer of the scalable bitstream based at least in part on a syntax element from the scalable bitstream. When the first layer is the dependent layer, a picture in the dependent layer is decoded bas...