US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Constraints and unit types to simplify video random access" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,782, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Constraints and unit types to simplify video random access" was invented by Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sandeep Kanumuri (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are innovations for bitstreams having clean random access (CRA) pictures and/or other types of random access point (RAP) pictures. New type definitions and strategic constraints on types of RAP pictures can simplify mapping of units of elementary video stream data to a container format. Such innovations can help improve the ability for video coding...