US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 12 for "Method and device using high layer syntax architecture for coding and decoding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,040, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and device using high layer syntax architecture for coding and decoding" was invented by Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and a device for decoding a video stream including at least two coded video sequences that each use a respective first parameter set that differ in at least one value from each other, and each of the at least two coded video sequences including at least two coded pictures, and the at least two coded video sequences have different presentation times....