US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 30 for "Identification of random access point and picture types" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,368, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identification of random access point and picture types" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for reconstructing a current Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit for video decoding using at least one processor includes determining the current NAL unit to be an Intra Random Access Picture (IRAP) NAL unit; determining whether a previous NAL unit decoded immediately before the current NAL unit indicates an end of a coded video sequ...