US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on June 17 for "Tracking a reference picture on an electronic device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,509, issued on June 17, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Tracking a reference picture on an electronic device" was invented by Kiran Misra (Vancouver, Wash.), Sachin G. Deshpande (Camas, Wash.) and Christopher A. Segall (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking a reference picture on an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a bitstream. The method also includes decoding a portion of the bitstream to produce a decoded reference picture. The method further includes tracking the decoded reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) with reduced overhead referencing....