US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Reference picture management in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,695, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Reference picture management in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and FNU Hendry (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 slice header of a current slice represented in the coded video bitstream. The slice header includes a reference picture list structure. The method also includes deriving, based on the reference picture list structure, a reference picture list of the current slice; and obtaining, based on the reference picture list, at l...