US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on Aug. 26 for "Partial output of a decoded picture buffer in video coding" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,811, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Partial output of a decoded picture buffer in video coding" was invented by Emmanouil Potetsianakis (The Hague, Netherlands) and Emmanuel Thomas (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for processing an encoded representation of a sequence of pictures are disclosed, wherein the method includes: a processor of a decoding apparatus allocating memory for one or more pictures in a decoded picture buffer, DPB; th...