ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,627, issued on June 3, 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: "There is provided a method of decoding video data from a bitstream, the bitstream comprising video data corresponding to one or more slices. The bitstream comprises a picture header comprising syntax elements to be used when decoding one or more slices, and a slice header comprising syntax elements to be used when decoding a slice, the decoding comprising: parsin...