US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 18 for "Image decoding device and image coding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,139, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Amsterdam Zuidoost, Netherlands).

"Image decoding device and image coding device" was invented by Tomoyuki Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Osaka, Japan), Yukinobu Yasugi (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Tsukuba (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference picture information decoding unit (13) omits decoding of a reference list sorting presence or absence flag and/or a reference list sorting order based on the number of current picture referable pictures."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 2024, under Application No. 18/429,053.

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