ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,727, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Sub-pictures for pixel rate balancing" was invented by Minhua Zhou (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a compressed video bit stream in a video decoder to recover a video sequence, the video decoder including a plurality of decoder processing cores is provided. The method includes determining that a picture is encoded in the compressed bit stream as a pre-determined number of independently encoded sub-pictures, and dispatching a first encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a first decoder processing co...