US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Output of prior pictures for pictures starting a new coded video sequence in video coding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,626, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Output of prior pictures for pictures starting a new coded video sequence in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded video bitstream is provided. The method includes receiving the coded video bitstream, wherein the coded video bitstream contains a clean random access (CRA) picture and a first flag having a first value; setting a second value of a second flag equal to the first value of the first flag; emptying, by the video decoder, any previously-decoded pictures from a d...