ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,376, issued on March 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Luma mapping with chroma scaling adaptation parameter set in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), F N U Hendry (San Diego) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a slice and a luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) adaptation parameter set (APS) including LMCS parameters. The mechanism further includes determining that the LMCS APS is referenced in data related to the slice. The mechanism further includes decoding...