ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,609, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method for encoding/decoding image signal and device therefor" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining whether a picture is to be divided into multiple sub-pictures; when it is determined that the picture is to be divided into multiple sub-pictures, dividing the picture into multiple sub-pictures; and determining whether the multiple sub-pictures are independent of each other."
The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2024, under...