ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,186, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Reference picture list handling" was invented by Jonatan Samuelsson (Enskede, Sweden) and Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder is configured to encode a representation of a current picture of a video stream of multiple pictures. The encoder is further configured to encode, for each of a plurality of reference pictures included in a buffer description for the current picture, a respective one-bit flag according to one of two available values for the one-bit flag. The two available values for the one-bit flag inc...