ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,428, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling picture output resolution in video coding" was invented by Jonatan Samuelsson (Vancouver, Wash.), Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.) and Christopher Andrew Segall (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for signaling picture output resolution for coded video. According to an aspect of an invention, a first flag syntax element indicating whether conformance cropping window offset parameters are present in a sequence parameter set is parsed, wherein...