US Patent Issued to Sharp on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for signaling reference pictures in video coding" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,863, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Systems and methods for signaling reference pictures in video coding" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of an invention, a method for signaling reference pictures in video coding is disclosed. The method comprises: decoding a number of entries in a reference picture list syntax structure; decoding a number of reference index active minus one syntax in a slice header, if the number of entries is greater than one; and deriving an active variable by using the number of reference index active minus...