US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 5 for "Block level reference pictures adaptation for video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,017, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Block level reference pictures adaptation for video coding" was invented by Han Huang (San Diego), Vadim Seregin (San Diego) and Marta Karczewicz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoder may be configured to generate a first ordering of reference pictures in a reference picture list for a first block of a slice, wherein generating the first ordering of the reference pictures for the first block comprises assigning indexes to the reference pictures; and generate a second ordering of the reference pictures in the reference picture list for a second block...