US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 15 for "Methods providing encoding/decoding of dependent/independent partitions and related devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,315, issued on July 15, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods providing encoding/decoding of dependent/independent partitions and related devices" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden) and Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods to decode a picture from a bitstream are discussed. A partitioning structure of the picture is determined, wherein the partitioning structure defines at least first and second partitions of the picture. At least one dependency syntax element is decoded from the bitstream, and whether the ...