US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Candidate signaling for reference picture list structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,918, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Candidate signaling for reference picture list structures" was invented by F. N. U. 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 implemented by a video decoder is provided. The method includes parsing a flag; parsing candidates for a first reference picture list structure; determining that candidates for a second reference picture list structure are not present in the coded video bitstream and inferring that the candidates for the second reference picture list structure ar...