ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,123, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Flexible tiling in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego), FNU Henry (San Diego) and Maxim Borisovitch Sychev (Plano, 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. Each second level tile contains a single rectangular slice of picture data. The first level tiles and the second level tiles are encoded into a bitstream. The bitstream ...