ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,235, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding device may be configured to signal reference picture lists according to one or more of the techniques described herein. In one example, a method of decoding video data comprises: receiving reference picture list syntax elements; and parsing a syntax element specifying a value of a picture order count delta in the reference picture list syntax elements, wherein the syntax element is defined by i ...