ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,118, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Reference picture management in layered 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 video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a current picture and a reference picture list structure comprising an inter-layer reference picture flag. The mechanism determines an entry in the reference picture list structure associated with the current picture is an inter-layer reference picture (ILRP) entry based on the inter-layer reference picture...