US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on April 15 for "Tile group assignment for raster scan and rectangular tile groups in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,973, issued on April 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Tile group assignment for raster scan and rectangular tile groups in video coding" was invented by FNU Hendry (San Diego) and Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of tiles. A number of the tiles are included in a tile group. The mechanism determines whether the tile group is a raster scan tile group or a rectangular tile group. The number of tiles in the tile group is determined based on whether the tile group is the raster scan ...