US Patent Issued to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING on July 7 for "Tile and slice partitioning in video processing" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,993, issued on July 7, was assigned to ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING Ltd. (George Town, Cayman Islands).

"Tile and slice partitioning in video processing" was invented by Jie Chen (Beijing), Yan Ye (San Diego) and Ru-Ling Liao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding or decoding video. The method includes encoding or decoding, in a plurality of picture parameter sets (PPS) associated with pictures of a coded layer video sequence (CLVS), corresponding first PPS flags indicating whether pictures are allowed to be partitioned into a plurality of tiles or slices. In a first...