IP Library Granted Patent US 12,238,319
Granted Patent B2
US 12,238,319 · App. 17/614,497 · Granted Feb 25, 2025

Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium storing bitstream

Inventors: Woong Lim (Daejeon, KR); Gun Bang (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
H04N19/46H04N19/176H04N19/1883H04N19/82
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Patent No.
US 12,238,319
App. No.
17/614,497
Granted
Feb 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a video decoding method, the video decoding method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises, obtaining sub-picture information of a current sub-picture through at least one signaling level and decoding the current sub-picture using the sub-picture information, wherein the sub-picture information is obtained for each decoded sub-picture.

Claims (41)

1. An image decoding method comprising:

obtaining sub-picture information from a sequence parameter set (SPS) of a bitstream; and

decoding a current sub-picture based on the sub-picture information,

wherein the sub-picture information includes at least one of a first flag or a second flag,

wherein the first flag indicating whether a sub-picture ID is explicitly signaled,

wherein the second flag indicating whether the sub-picture ID is signaled in the SPS or a picture parameter set (PPS),

wherein, in response to the first flag indicating that the sub-picture ID is not explicitly signaled, the sub-picture ID is not explicitly signaled,

wherein, in response to the first flag indicating that the sub-picture ID is explicitly signaled, the second flag is obtained from the SPS,

wherein, in response to a value of the second flag being 1, the sub-picture ID is signaled from the SPS,

wherein, in response to the value of the second flag being 0, the sub-picture ID is signaled from the PPS, and

wherein the sub-picture information includes a third flag indicating whether sub-pictures included in a current picture have a same size.

2. The image decoding method of claim 1 ,

wherein, in response to the third flag indicating that the sub-pictures included in the current picture do not have the same size, location information specifying a location of a top left coding tree unit (CTU) of the current sub-picture is signaled from the bitstream, and

wherein, in response to the third flag indicating that the sub-pictures included in the current picture have the same size, the location information is not signaled.

3. The image decoding method of claim 1 ,

wherein, in response to the third flag indicating that the sub-pictures included in the current picture do not have the same size, size information of the current sub-picture is signaled from the bitstream, and

wherein the size information of the current sub-picture includes width and height information of the current sub-picture.

4. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the sub-picture information includes information indicating whether decoding is performed by determining the current sub-picture as a picture.

5. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the sub-picture information includes sub-picture filtering information indicating whether to apply filtering to a boundary of the current sub-picture.

6. An image encoding method comprising:

determining sub-picture information based on a current sub-picture; and

encoding the sub-picture information into a sequence parameter set (SPS) of a bitstream,

wherein the sub-picture information includes at least one of a first flag or a second flag,

wherein the first flag indicating whether a sub-picture ID is explicitly signaled,

wherein the second flag indicating whether the sub-picture ID is signaled in the SPS or a picture parameter set (PPS),

wherein, in response to the sub-picture ID being encoded into the SPS, the second flag with a value of 1 is encoded,

wherein, in response to the sub-picture ID being encoded into the PPS, the second flag with a value of 0 is encoded,

wherein, in response to the second flag being encoded, the first flag with a value of 1, indicating that the sub-picture ID is explicitly signaled, is encoded into the SPS,

wherein, in response to the second flag being not encoded, the first flag with a value of 0, indicating that the sub-picture ID is not explicitly signaled, is encoded into the SPS, and

wherein the sub-picture information includes a third flag indicating whether sub-pictures included in a current picture have a same size.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a bitstream generated by an encoding method, the method comprising:

determining sub-picture information based on a current sub-picture; and

encoding the sub-picture information into a sequence parameter set (SPS) of the bitstream,

wherein the sub-picture information includes at least one of a first flag or a second flag,

wherein the first flag indicating whether a sub-picture ID is explicitly signaled,

wherein the second flag indicating whether the sub-picture ID is signaled in the SPS or a picture parameter set (PPS),

wherein, in response to the sub-picture ID being encoded into the SPS, the second flag with a value of 1 is encoded,

wherein, in response to the sub-picture ID being encoded into the PPS, the second flag with a value of 0 is encoded,

wherein, in response to the second flag being encoded, the first flag with a value of 1, indicating that the sub-picture ID is explicitly signaled, is encoded into the SPS,

wherein, in response to the second flag being not encoded, the first flag with a value of 0, indicating that the sub-picture ID is not explicitly signaled, is encoded into the SPS, and

wherein the sub-picture information includes a third flag indicating whether sub-pictures included in a current picture have a same size.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2026
From: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
To: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 073983/0968 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 26, 2021
From: LIM, WOONG; BANG, GUN
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Reel/Frame 058213/0539 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2019-0116800 · Sep 23, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0118875 · Sep 26, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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