ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,728, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Sub-picture sizing in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and Fnu Hendry (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising one or more sub-pictures partitioned from a picture such that each sub-picture includes a sub-picture width that is an integer multiple of a coding tree unit (CTU) size when the each sub-picture includes a right boundary that does not coincide with a right boundary of the picture. The bitstream is parsed to obtain the one...