ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,700, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Video coding supporting subpictures, slices and tiles" was invented by Nael Ouedraogo (Val d'Anast, France), Guillaume Laroche (Saint Aubin d'Aubigne, France) and Patrice Onno (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing image data for one or more image-(s), each image consisting of one or more tile(s) and being divisible into one or more image portion(s), wherein the image is divisible into one or more subpicture-(s), and the method comprises: determining one or more image portion(s) included in a subpicture; and -processing the one or more image(s) ...