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Granted Patent B2
US 12,192,491 · App. 17/616,481 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

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

Inventors: Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, KR); Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, KR); Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, KR); Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, KR); Dae Yeon Kim (Seoul, KR); Ju Ock Lee (Seoul, KR)
Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute; CHIPS&MEDIA, INC
H04N19/188H04N19/119H04N19/172H04N19/593H04N19/70
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Patent No.
US 12,192,491
App. No.
17/616,481
Granted
Jan 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. The method of decoding an image according to the present invention, comprises, obtaining a single stream including subpicture information of a plurality of subpictures; selecting a subpicture to be extracted from among the plurality of subpictures; determining the single stream as a stream to be extracted and obtaining a sub stream for the subpicture to be extracted from the stream to be extracted, by removing or using at least one piece of subpicture information included in the stream to be extracted.

Claims (31)

1. An image decoding method comprising:

obtaining a stream including subpicture information of a plurality of subpictures;

selecting a first subpicture to be extracted from among the plurality of subpictures; and

obtaining a sub stream for the first subpicture from the stream, by removing or using at least one piece of subpicture information included in the stream,

wherein the subpicture information comprises at least one of sequence parameter set (SPS) information or picture parameter set information (PPS),

wherein the sub stream is obtained without changing at least one piece of subpicture information of the first subpicture, and

wherein the unchanged subpicture information comprises information indicating whether to treat a subpicture as a picture.

2. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the subpicture information comprises a non-video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit and a VCL NAL unit for the plurality of subpictures.

3. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the sub stream is obtained by removing a VCL NAL unit for a subpicture which is not the first subpicture.

4. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the sub stream is obtained, by setting top left coding tree unit (CTU) coordinates of the first subpicture are set to (0, 0).

5. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the sub stream is obtained by changing information indicating a total number of subpictures to be extracted.

6. The image decoding method of claim 1 , wherein the sub stream is obtained by removing subpicture information for a subpicture which is not the first subpicture.

7. The image decoding method of claim 1 ,

wherein the subpicture information comprises at least one of a video parameter set (VPS) NAL unit, an end of bitstream (EOB) NAL unit, an access unit delimiter (AUD) NAL unit or a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) NAL unit, and

wherein at least one of the VPS NAL unit, the EOB NAL unit, the AUD NAL unit or the SEI NAL unit is not removed from the stream.

8. An image encoding method comprising:

obtaining a stream including subpicture information of a plurality of subpictures;

selecting a first subpicture to be extracted from among the plurality of subpictures; and

obtaining a sub stream for the first subpicture from the stream, by removing or using at least one piece of subpicture information included in the stream,

wherein the subpicture information comprises at least one of sequence parameter set (SPS) information or picture parameter set information (PPS),

wherein the sub stream is obtained without changing at least one piece of subpicture information of the first subpicture, and

wherein the unchanged subpicture information comprises information indicating whether to treat a subpicture as a picture.

9. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein the subpicture information comprises a non-video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit and a VCL NAL unit for the plurality of subpictures.

10. The image encoding method of claim 9 , wherein the sub stream is obtained, by removing a VCL NAL unit for a sub picture which is not the first subpicture.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a sub stream received by an image decoding apparatus and used to reconstruct a current block included in a current picture, the sub stream being generated by an image encoding method, the image encoding method comprising:

obtaining a single stream including subpicture information of a plurality of subpictures;

selecting a first subpicture to be extracted from among the plurality of subpictures; and

obtaining a sub stream for the first subpicture from the stream, by removing or using at least one piece of subpicture information included in the stream,

wherein the subpicture information comprises at least one of sequence parameter set (SPS) information or picture parameter set information (PPS),

wherein the sub stream is obtained without changing at least one piece of subpicture information of the first subpicture, and

wherein the unchanged subpicture information comprises information indicating whether to treat a subpicture as a picture.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: LIM, SUNG CHANG; KANG, JUNG WON; LEE, HA HYUN; LEE, JIN HO; KIM, DAE YEON; LEE, JU OCK
To: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE; CHIPS&MEDIA, INC
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Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2019-0116393 · Sep 20, 2019 · national
KR 10-2019-0117076 · Sep 23, 2019 · national
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