US Patent Issued to Apple on April 21 for "Method for encoding/decoding image signal based on tile index difference values, and device for same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,055, issued on April 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for encoding/decoding image signal based on tile index difference values, and device for same" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video signal decoding method according to the present disclosure includes decoding a first flag representing whether tile index difference value information is present or not, decoding size information for a first slice, decoding tile index difference value information for the first slice when the first flag is true and determining an index of a second tile at a top-left po...