ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,972, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"OLS for spatial and SNR scalability" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes encoding a bitstream comprising one or more layers of coded pictures. A video parameter set (VPS) is also encoded into the bitstream. The VPS includes an output layer set (OLS) mode identification code (ols_mode_idc) specifying that a total number of OLSs specified by the VPS is equal to a number of layers specified by the VPS. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a de...