US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 15 for "Arrangements and methods of encoding picture belonging to a temporal level" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,321, issued on July 15, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Arrangements and methods of encoding picture belonging to a temporal level" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm) and Jonatan Samuelsson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a video encoder for encoding a current picture belonging to a temporal level identified by a temporal_id. The method includes determining a Reference Picture Set (RPS) for the current picture indicating reference pictures that are kept in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) when decoding the current picture, and when the current picture is a te...