US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Harmonization of raster scan and rectangular tile groups in video coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,631, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Harmonization of 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. A flag is also encoded into a parameter set of a bitstream. The flag is set to a first value when the tile group is a raster scan tile group and a second value when the tile group is a rectangular tile group. The tile...