US 8,107,744 B2
Picture buffering for prediction references and displayGeneral
US 8,107,744 B2
Picture buffering for prediction references and display
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Yuzhen Ge
Art Unit:
2624 Selective Visual Display Systems
Agent:
Inventors:
Dong Tian; Miska Hannuksela; Ye-Kui Wang
Assignee:
Priority:
11/06/03
Filed:
11/06/03
Granted:
01/31/12
Expiration:
05/10/25
Abstract
The invention relates to an encoder for forming an encoded picture stream. The pictures are defined as reference pictures or non-reference pictures, and information relating to decoding order and output order of a picture is defined for pictures of the picture stream. The encoder is arranged to form to the bitstream an indication of such a number of pictures arranged to be buffered in decoding order that is sufficient to recover the output order of pictures. The invention also relates to a signal, hypothetical encoder, decoder, hypothetical decoder, electronic device, system, software program and a storage medium.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04N21/23406H04N