US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Feb. 25 for "Method and apparatus for signaling and construction of video coding reference picture lists" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,275, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for signaling and construction of video coding reference picture lists" was invented by Yan Ye (San Diego) and Yong He (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved method and apparatus for signaling of reference pictures used for temporal prediction. The signaling schemes and construction process for different reference picture lists in HEVC Working Draft 5 (WD5) are improved."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2022, under Application No. 17/945,714.

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