US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 9 for "Constraint flags in general constraints information" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,758, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Constraint flags in general constraints information" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Vancouver, Wash.), Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video encoding includes determining whether a plurality of constraint flags of a constraint information group are to be signaled for a subset of coding blocks, and signaling a gate flag indicating whether the plurality of constraint flags of the constraint information group are signaled. The gate flag is signaled in constraint information i...