ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,983, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Video content delivery methods" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding a picture of a video sequence in a bit stream that reduces slice header parsing overhead is provided. The method includes determining weighting factors that may be used for weighted prediction in encoding at least one slice of the picture, wherein a total number of the weighting factors is constrained to not exceed a predetermined threshold number of weighting factors, wherein the threshold number is less than a maximum possible number of ...