ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,928, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"General constraint information for video coding" was invented by Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Tsung-Chuan Ma (San Diego), Wei Chen (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego) and Bing Yu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for decoding a video signal are provided. In one method, a decoder may receive constraint flags, and at least one of the constraint flags indicates whether a slice is an intra slice. The deco...