ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,943, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Video coding using multi-resolution reference picture management" was invented by Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Yi-Wen Chen (San Diego), Yunfei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Xing Wen (San Jose, Calif.), Yucong Chen (Beijing) and Yue Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video coding methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer readable mediums are provided. The method includes: obtaining a list of reference pictures comprising a plurality of pictures stored in a buffer, where the plurality of pictures comprise at least a f...