US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 17 for "Reference picture management in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,060, issued on March 17, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Reference picture management in video coding" was invented by Fnu Hendry (San Diego) and Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a coded video bitstream. The method includes obtaining a first reference picture list of a current slice represented in the coded video bitstream and a second reference picture list of the current slice, and marking a status of a reference picture in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) based on the first reference picture list and the second reference picture list when the current slice i...