US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 18 for "Hierarchical inter-layer prediction in multi-loop scalable video coding" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,663, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Hierarchical inter-layer prediction in multi-loop scalable video coding" was invented by Do-Kyoung Kwon (Allen, Texas) and Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a video sequence in a scalable video encoder to generate a scalable bitstream is provided that includes encoding the video sequence in a first layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a first sub-bitstream, encoding the video sequence in a second layer encoder of the scalable video encoder to generate a second sub-bitstream, wherein portions ...