US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on Sept. 9 for "Prioritized decoding and output of parts of a picture in video coding" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,791, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Prioritized decoding and output of parts of a picture 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: allocating memory for a current picture of the sequence of pictures in a decoded picture buffer, DPB; r...