US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on July 22 for "Method and system for selectively breaking prediction in video coding" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,862, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method and system for selectively breaking prediction in video coding" was invented by Michael Horowitz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques in video coding and/or decoding that allow for selectively breaking prediction and/or in loop filtering across segment boundaries between different segments of a video picture. A high layer syntax element, such as a parameter set or a slice header, may contain one or more indications signalling to an encoder and/or decoder whether an associated prediction or loop filteri...