US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 3 for "Systems and methods for signaling reference pictures in video coding" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,628, issued on June 3, 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: "A method for determining a reference index for a reference picture list is disclosed. A reference picture list structure in one of a sequence parameter set and a slice header is decoded. A reference index for the reference picture list structure is derived according to a value of a reference picture list flag. A number of reference index active syntax in the slice header is decoded, if a number of entries in the refe...