ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,838, issued on May 13, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Method and apparatus for tile-relative addressing in video coding" was invented by Miska Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: receive a sequence of pictures; encode a picture among the sequence of pictures as one or more slices and one or more tiles, wherein a slice comprises an integer number of tiles or is included in a tile; encode, into a slice header of a slice of the one or more slices, a subpicture identifier indicative of a subpicture that comprises the slice; wherein the subpic...