ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,862, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Signaling of picture header 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 is provided. The method includes receiving a video bitstream including a picture unit (PU), where a gradual decoding refresh (GDR) flag in a picture header (PH) of the PU has a first value to specify that a picture associated with the PH is a GDR picture; and decoding the GDR picture from the PU to obtain a decoded picture."

The patent was filed on March 23, 20...