US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Reducing latency in video encoding and decoding" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,091, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reducing latency in video encoding and decoding" was invented by Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and tools for reducing latency in video encoding and decoding by constraining latency due to reordering of video frames, and by indicating the constraint on frame reordering latency with one or more syntax elements that accompany encoded data for the video frames. For example, a real-time communication tool with a video encoder sets a syntax element that indicates a constraint on frame reordering latency,...