ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,394, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Method of decoding video data and device" was invented by Sachin G. Deshpande (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding video data includes: receiving a picture parameter set; parsing a first syntax element specifying whether a rectangular slice mode is in use for each picture referring to the picture parameter set; conditionally parsing a second syntax element in a case that the rectangular slice mode is in use; conditionally parsing a third syntax element in a case that the rectangular slice mode is in use and that each subpicture consis...