US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 2 for "Signaling of state information for a decoded picture buffer and reference picture lists" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,853, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Signaling of state information for a decoded picture buffer and reference picture lists" was invented by Gary J. Sullivan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yongjun Wu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Innovations for signaling state of a decoded picture buffer ("DPB") and reference picture lists ("RPLs"). In example implementations, rather than rely on internal state of a decoder to manage and update DPB and RPLs, state information about the DPB and RPLs is explicitly signaled. This permits a decoder to determine which pictures are expecte...