ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,929, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"Signaling of priority processing order for metadata messaging in video coding" was invented by Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.), Sean Thomas McCarthy (San Francisco), Walter J. Husak (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Konstantinos Konstantinides (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and bitstream syntax are described for determining the processing order of metadata messaging, such as supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messaging in MPEG video coding."
The patent was filed on June 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/567,333.
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