US Patent Issued to OP Solutions on Nov. 11 for "Online and offline selection of extended long term reference picture retention" (Florida, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,694, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).

"Online and offline selection of extended long term reference picture retention" was invented by Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.), Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoder encodes a plurality of pictures with one of the pictures being a long term reference picture. The encoder provides signaling in a bitstream for a decoder to reconstruct pictures by selectively activating the long term reference picture for use as a reference picture, maintaining the long term reference picture in the buffer ...