US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 15 for "Inter coding in video coding with the support of multiple layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,327, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Inter coding in video coding with the support of multiple layers" was invented by Jianle Chen (San Diego), 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 includes receiving the coded video bitstream, the coded video bitstream containing reference picture lists; obtaining reference pictures for a current picture from the reference picture lists; setting a motion vector refinement flag to a first value to enable motion vector refinement for a current block of the current picture when the refere...