Patent ID: 8644384

Claim:
An apparatus for coding comprising: a forward coder operative to accept a current picture of a video sequence and a motion-compensated prediction picture, and to determine quantized transform coefficients of a difference picture; and a reconstruction module coupled to the forward coder and comprising: a reference picture predictor that uses one or more previously decoded pictures to determine one or more predicted reference pictures; and a motion compensated predictor coupled to the reference picture predictor and operative to determine, from one or a plurality of the one or more predicted reference pictures, a motion-compensated prediction picture and any motion vectors used to determine the motion-compensated prediction picture, such that the only overhead needed to be sent to or stored for a decoder that includes a decoder reference picture predictor that uses the quantized transform coefficients of the difference picture and one or more previously decoded pictures that are stored in the decoder in a multi-picture store is an indication of what data in the decoder multi-picture store is used by the decoder, or how the data is organized in the decoder's multi-picture store.