US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on March 4 for "Methods and systems for performing gradual decoding refresh processing on pictures" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,846, issued on March 4, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Methods and systems for performing gradual decoding refresh processing on pictures" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Jiancong Luo (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses video processing include: in response to receiving a video sequence, encoding first flag data in a parameter set associated with the video sequence, wherein the first flag data represents whether gradual decoding refresh (GDR) is enabled or disabled for the video sequence; when the first f...