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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Yunfei Zheng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexandros Tourapis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Alican Nalci, La Jolla, CA (US);
Felix C. Fernandes, Saratoga, CA (US);
Hilmi Enes Egilmez, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hsi-Jung Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jaehong Chon, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jun Xin, San Jose, CA (US);
Yeqing Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yixin Du, Milpitas, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reducing a quantity of buffers for a video codec. One of the methods includes determining, from a plurality of prediction modes, a prediction mode for data that represents frame data in a frame; in response to determining the prediction mode, selecting, using the prediction mode, one or more buffers from a plurality of buffers, each buffer of which is for a prediction mode from the plurality of prediction modes, a first quantity of buffers in the plurality of buffers being less than a second quantity of prediction modes in the plurality of prediction modes; retrieving, from each of the one or more buffers, historical data for the frame data; and in response to retrieving the historical data, generating, using the historical data, updated data for the frame data in the frame of the video sequence.