ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,865, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Sub-picture identifier signaling 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 a sequence parameter set (SPS), one or more sub-pictures partitioned from a picture, and one or more slice headers associated with one or more slices. The SPS is parsed to obtain sub-picture identifiers (IDs) for the one or more sub-pictures. The slice headers are parsed to obtain a current sub-picture ID asso...