US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 13 for "Constraining slice header processing overhead in video coding" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,873, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Constraining slice header processing overhead in video coding" 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 constrains slice header processing overhead is provided. The method includes computing a maximum slice rate for the video sequence, computing a maximum number of slices for the picture based on the maximum slice rate, and encoding the picture wherein a number of slices used to encode the picture is enforced to be no more than the maximum number of slices."

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