US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on May 19 for "Method and apparatus for acquiring information about sub-units split from picture" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,455, issued on May 19, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for acquiring information about sub-units split from picture" was invented by Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Se Hoon Son (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for obtaining information on sub-units partitioned from a picture. The method comprises: decoding, from a bitstream, CTU size information indicating the size of coding tree units (CTUs) within the picture; decoding, from the bitstream, sub-picture partition information expressing sub-pictures within the...