ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,103, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Disallowing unused layers in multi-layer video bitstreams" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding is provided. The method includes receiving, by the video decoder, a video bitstream including a video parameter set (VPS) and a plurality of layers, where each layer is included in at least one output layer set (OLS) specified by the VPS; and decoding, by the video decoder, a picture from one of the plurality of layers. A method of encoding is also provided. The method of encoding includes generatin...