US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies Co. on Sept. 9 for "Reference picture management in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,712, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Reference picture management in video coding" was invented by Fnu Hendry (San Diego) and Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded video bitstream is provided. The method includes obtaining a reference picture list structure for a current slice represented in the coded video bitstream; constructing a reference picture list for the current slice based on the reference picture list structure such that a number of entries in the reference picture list and an order of the entries in the reference picture list...