US Patent Issued to Dolby Interanational on Oct. 27 for "Encoding video with extended long term reference picture retention" (Georgia, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,152, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dolby Interanational AB (Dublin).

"Encoding video with extended long term reference picture retention" was invented by Velibor Adzic (Canton, Ga.), Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder for video encoding and decoding with long term reference picture retention. The encoder generates an encoded bitstream for a compliant decoder. At the decoder, coded pictures are decoded using a list of references pictures, of which at least one is a long term reference picture. A first picture is decoded using the long term reference picture...