ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,488, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"High level syntax for video coding and decoding" was invented by Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France), Nael Ouedraogo (Val d'Anast, France) and Patrice Onno (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data from a bitstream, the bitstream comprising video data corresponding to multiple slices, wherein the video bitstream comprises a picture header; the method includes determining a coding mode for at least one slice; determining a set of syntax elements to be used for said coding mode from said picture header; and decoding said at l...