ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,625, issued on Aug. 19.
"Reference picture management and list construction" was invented by Alexandros Tourapis (Milpitas, Calif.), Jungsun Kim (Cupertino, Calif.), Krishnakanth Rapaka (San Jose, Calif.) and David William Singer (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for encoding video with motion compensation include a compressed bitstream syntax that includes a list of all motion prediction reference frames without distinguishing between short-term reference frame and long-term reference frames. The list of reference frames may be provided in a slice header and may apply to encoded data video data within the corr...