ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,738, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Interlaced video coding with leading pictures" was invented by Fnu Hendry (San Diego) and 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 receiving a bitstream comprising a flag and a plurality of coded pictures including an intra random access point (IRAP) picture and one or more non-leading pictures associated with the IRAP picture. When the flag is set to a first value any leading pictures associated with the IRAP picture precede, in decoding order, all non-leading pictures as...