US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 27 for "Decoder and corresponding methods to signal picture partitioning information for slices" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,858, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Decoder and corresponding methods to signal picture partitioning information for slices" was invented by Semih Esenlik (Munich), Biao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Anand Meher Kotra (Munich) and Elena Alexandrovna Alshina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of coding performed by a decoding device and a decoder are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a bitstream for a current picture; obtaining a quantity of tiles in a tile row of the current picture; obtaining a value of an address of a current slice comprised in the current picture...