Patent ID: 11943431
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. An encoding device, comprising:
a memory containing instructions;
a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to implement the instructions to cause the encoding device to:
generate an external decoder refresh (EDR) picture and a list of pictures for the EDR picture, wherein the list of pictures lists pictures referred to by entries in a first reference picture list, pictures referred to by entries in a second reference picture list, and external pictures in increasing decoding order, and wherein a difference between picture order count values for any two consecutive pictures in the list of pictures is greater than one half of a negative of maximum picture order count least significant bits and less than one half of the maximum picture order count least significant bits; and
encode the EDR picture and the list of pictures for the EDR picture into a bitstream; and

a transmitter coupled to the processor, the transmitter configured to transmit the bitstream toward a video decoder.