ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,728, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Gradual decoding refresh in video coding" was invented by F N U 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 determining whether a gradual decoding refresh (GDR) picture in the coded video bitstream is an initial picture in decoding order or the initial picture following an end of sequence (EOS) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit in the decoding order; setting a f...