US Patent Issued to HFI INNOVATION on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for signaling tile and slice partition information in image and video coding" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,120, issued on March 17, was assigned to HFI INNOVATION INC. (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for signaling tile and slice partition information in image and video coding" was invented by Shih-Ta Hsiang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for signaling or parsing picture partition information are disclosed. According to one method, a syntax related to a number of tiles in a target slice is signaled at an encoder side or parsed at a decoder side if the address of the target slice does not correspond to a last tile index of the current picture and the raster-scan slice mode is used f...