US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 30 for "Method for alignment across layers in coded video stream" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,357, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for alignment across layers in coded video stream" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for aligning across layers in a coded video stream. A video bitstream having multiple layers is decoded. One or more subpicture regions are identified from among the multiple layers of the decoded video bitstream, the subpicture regions including a background region and one or more fore...