US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on June 17 for "Semantics for constrained processing and conformance testing in video coding" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,530, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Semantics for constrained processing and conformance testing in video coding" was invented by Sean Thomas McCarthy (San Francisco), Peng Yin (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Walter J. Husak (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and bitstream syntax are described for constrained processing in video coding. Using one or more syntax elements and either explicit or implicit signaling, an encoder may signal to compliant decoders that certain features of the main profile, such as subpictures and multi-layered scalable coding, are ...