Patent 7116714 was granted and assigned to Nokia on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of encoding a video signal representing a sequence of pictures, the method comprising encoding a first picture (or segment of a picture) of the sequence without reference to another picture of the sequence to produce a picture (10) and encoding said first picture (or segment of a picture) with reference to another picture (14) of the sequence to produce a corresponding temporally predicted picture (P4) or segment of a picture.