US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on March 25 for "Encoder, decoder and methods thereof for video encoding and decoding" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,042, issued on March 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Encoder, decoder and methods thereof for video encoding and decoding" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm) and Jonatan Samuelsson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an encoder is configured to ensure that for each long-term picture of a RPS of a picture i the value of a flag referred to as delta_poc_msb_present_flag[i] is equal to 1 when there are at least two reference pictures in a decoded picture buffer with lsb's of the POC referred to as pic_order_cnt_lsb equal to the lsb's of the respective lo...