ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,531, issued on April 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Slicing and tiling in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Fnu Hendry (San Diego) and Jianle Chen (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving at a decoder, a bitstream including a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit containing a slice of image data divided into a plurality of tiles. A number of the tiles in the VCL NAL unit are determined. A number of entry point offsets for the tiles is also determined as one less than the number of ...