US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 7 for "Flexible tile partitions" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,977, issued on July 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Flexible tile partitions" was invented by Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Jack Enhorn (Kista, Sweden), Martin Pettersson (Vallentuna, Sweden) and Mitra Damghanian (Upplands-Bro, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder, a decoder, and methods for partitioning a picture from a sequence of video pictures into a layout having a plurality of flexible tiles or segments is disclosed. Each tile or segment comprises a single rectangular or square region. The encoder generates a partition structure and encodes the tiles according to the partition s...