ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,094, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Image signal encoding/decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong San Jun (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method, according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: parsing tile column number information indicating a value wherein 1 is subtracted from the number of tile columns included in the i-th slice; parsing tile row number information indicating a value wherein 1 is subtracted from the number of tile rows included in the i-th ...