US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Index signaling for reference picture list structures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,149, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Index signaling for reference picture list structures" 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 parsing a flag; parsing a first reference picture list structure; determining that an index to a second reference picture list structure is not present in a slice header of the coded video bitstream and inferring that the index to the second reference picture list structure is the same as an index to the first reference ...