ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,215, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Sub-picture layout signaling in video coding" was invented by Ye-Kui Wang (San Diego) and FNU Hendry (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a sub-picture partitioned from a picture and a sequence parameter set (SPS) comprising a sub-picture size and a sub-picture location. The SPS is parsed to obtain the sub-picture size of the sub-picture and the sub-picture location of the sub-picture. The sub-picture is decoded based on the sub-picture size and th...