US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 9 for "Extension of header values in video and image coding units" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,783, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Extension of header values in video and image coding units" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden) and Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an encoded image includes obtaining a layer identification, Layer ID, indicator from a first field of a header for a network abstraction layer, NAL, unit of the encoded image, determining whether the Layer ID indicator is less than a start value, in response to determining that the Layer ID indicator is not...