MUMBAI, India, Oct. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202548095152 A) filed by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Guangdong, China, on Oct. 3, for 'reference picture management in layered video coding.'

Inventor(s) include Wang Ye-Kui; and Hendry Fnu.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 31, under issue no. 44/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a current picture and a reference picture list structure comprising an inter-layer reference picture flag. The mechanism determines an entry in the reference picture list structure associated with the current picture is an inter-layer reference picture (ILRP) entry based on the inter-layer reference picture flag. The current picture is decoded based on an inter-layer reference picture indicated by the entry in the reference picture list structure when the entry is the ILRP entry. The current picture is forwarded for display as part of a decoded video sequence."

The patent application was internationally filed on May 19, 2020, under International application No.PCT/US2020/033595.

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