ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,336, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Gradual decoding refresh in video coding" was invented by Fnu Hendry (San Diego), Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded video bitstream implemented by a video decoder is provided. The method includes the video decoder receiving the coded video bitstream, the coded video bitstream containing a gradual decoding refresh (GDR) flag corresponding to a coded video sequence (CVS); determining, by the video decoder, whether a GDR picture is present in the CVS based on a value of the...