ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,321, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling source picture timing information in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.) and Jonatan Alfred Samuelsson-Allendes (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may be configured to decode video data based on information included in a source picture timing information message. In one example, a source picture timing information message includes a syntax element specifying a maximum number of temporal sublayers. In one example, a source picture timing information message includes instances of a synta...