US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on April 8 for "Reference picture management in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,570, issued on April 8, 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 includes obtaining a reference picture list structure for a current slice represented in the coded video bitstream, wherein the reference picture list structure contains a number of entries; obtaining a default number of active entries in a reference picture list for the current slice; constructing a reference picture list for the current slice, the reference pi...