ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,547, issued on April 8, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method for support of scalability with adaptive picture resolution" was invented by Byeongdoo Choi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for decoding multiple semantically independent picture parts into a single video picture includes decoding unique picture order count values for each coded picture, coded slice, or coded tile in a coded video sequence, with multiple decoded pictures, cycles, and tiles belonging to a same access unit representing a ...