US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Video decoder with configurable reference cache and on-chip memory buffer" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,149, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Video decoder with configurable reference cache and on-chip memory buffer" was invented by Shengqi Yang (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes an on-chip memory and one or more processors coupled to the on-chip memory. The one or more processors are configured to configure a reference cache of the on-chip memory to have a reference cache size based on video coding information. The on-chip memory includes an on-chip memory region that is external to the reference cache. The one or more processors are also configured to assign a portion of the...