ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,394, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Flexible tiling improvements in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), Fnu Hendry (San Diego) and Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Addison, Texas).
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 first level tiles. A subset of the first level tiles is partitioned into a plurality of second level tiles. The first level tiles and the second level tiles are assigned into one or more tile groups such that all tiles in an assigned tile group containing the se...