ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,868, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Gradual decoding refresh in video coding" was invented by FNU 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 disclosed. The method includes determining that a coded video sequence (CVS) of the coded video bitstream includes a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit having a gradual decoding refresh (GDR) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit type (GDR_NUT), the VCL NAL unit having the GDR_NUT c...