ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,447, issued on April 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"Picture segment ordering" was invented by Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm) and Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and decoder is provided for decoding at least one current picture from a bitstream. An indicator value is decoded from the bitstream specifying at least one rule of a plurality of rules, the at least one rule applied to ordering of segments coded in the bitstream, wherein the segments are segments in a segment partition layout. A set of syntax elements ...