ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,031, issued on March 25, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Efficient scalable coding concept" was invented by Karsten Suehring (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Valeri George (Berlin), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Robert Skupin (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scalable coding concepts are described. One aspect improves parallel decoding of inter-dependent layers of a multi-layer video data stream by introducing a long-term syntax element structure for guaranteeing that during a predetermined time period the pictures of the dependent layer are subdivided so that borders of the spatial segments of th...