US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on June 23 for "Reference frame selection method and apparatus, device, and medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,004, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Reference frame selection method and apparatus, device, and medium" was invented by Hongshun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference frame selection method and apparatus, a device, and a medium, relating to the field of video coding. The method includes: acquiring m candidate reference frames of a target coding unit, the target coding unit being one of a plurality of coding units of a video frame, m being an integer greater than 1; scoring the m candidate reference frames based on quality score information of t...