ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,182, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Chujoh (Sakai, Japan), Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, Japan), Tomoko Aono (Sakai, Japan), Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, Japan), Tomonori Hashimoto (Sakai, Japan), Tianyang Zhou (Sakai, Japan) and Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case that two reference picture lists are selected with one index value, the reference picture lists may not be determinable depending on the number of two reference picture list structures. Provided is a prediction unit that decodes a reference pictu...