ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,059, issued on March 25, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Interaction between subpicture and tile row signaling" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Li Zhang (San Diego) and Kai Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes making a determination, according to a rule, about whether a height of a subpicture of a video picture of a video is less than a height of a tile row of the video picture; and performing, using the determination, a conversion between the video and a bitstream of the video."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2023, under Application No. 18/516,507.

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