Patent ID: 11870948
Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory processor-readable medium having stored thereon an encoded video stream structure, the encoded video stream structure comprising:
an encoded picture section including an encoding of a sequence of video pictures; and
a signaling section including an encoding of metadata comprising syntax parameters for enabling displaying the sequence of video pictures at a variable frame rate, wherein the syntax parameters comprise a picture-timing-present flag, a picture-source-type flag, and a picture-position-type flag; and
for a current picture among the sequence of video pictures:
if the picture-timing-present flag is set to 1, then including
a duration of picture presentation time parameter in the metadata;
if the picture-source-type flag is set to 1, then including
a picture source parameter in the metadata, wherein the picture source parameter indicates one of an original picture, a replica of an original picture, or an interpolated picture; and
if the picture-position-type flag is set to 1, then including
one or more picture position in a scene parameters in the metadata.