US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Syntax and semantics for buffering information to simplify video splicing" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,756, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Syntax and semantics for buffering information to simplify video splicing" was invented by Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Lihua Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations in syntax and semantics of coded picture buffer removal delay ("CPBRD") values potentially simplify splicing operations. For example, a video encoder sets a CPBRD value for a current picture that indicates an increment value relative to a nominal coded picture buffer removal time of a preceding picture in decoding order, regardless of whethe...