ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,723, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method for splitting picture and decoding apparatus" was invented by Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Se Hoon Son (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea) and A Ram Baek (Sejong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for partitioning a picture is disclosed. The method includes: decoding from a bitstream, a split flag indicating whether the picture is partitioned into one or more sub-units; decoding, from the bitstream, partition information when the split flag indicates partitioning; ...