Granted Patent B2

US 12,256,070 · App. 18/495,716 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Inventor: Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, KR)

Assignee: Apple Inc.

H04N19/119H04N19/107H04N19/122H04N19/174

Abstract

Claims (28)

1. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles grouped according to a plurality of rectangular slices;

decoding slice partitioning information from a bitstream, the slice partitioning information specifying a slice definition method; and

determining that the slice definition method is a rectangular slice definition method;

in response to determining that the slice definition method is the rectangular slice definition method, decoding tile index delta information for one or more first rectangular slices of the plurality of rectangular slices,

wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, the tile index delta information specifies a difference between an index of a tile located a top left of that first rectangular slice and an index of a tile located at a top left of a respective other rectangular slice of the plurality of rectangular slices, and

wherein decoding the tile index delta information is omitted for a sequentially last one among the plurality of rectangular slices in the current picture.

2. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein decoding the tile index delta information is omitted for a sequentially first one among the plurality of rectangular slices in the current picture.

3. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, a size of that first rectangular slice is determined based on width information of that first rectangular slice and height information of that first rectangular slice.

4. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 3 , wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, in response to a determination that that first rectangular slice does not adjoin a left boundary in the current picture, the height information of that first rectangular slice is determined to be the same as height information of a slice previous to that first rectangular slice.

5. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one computer-readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles grouped according to a plurality of rectangular slices; and

encoding slice partitioning information into a bitstream, the slice partitioning information specifying a rectangular slice definition method, and

encoding tile index delta information for one or more first rectangular slices of the plurality of rectangular slices, wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, the tile index delta information specifies a difference between an index of a tile located a top left of that first rectangular slice and an index of a tile located at a top left of a respective other rectangular slice of the plurality of rectangular slices, and

wherein encoding the tile index delta information is omitted for a sequentially last one among the plurality of rectangular slices in the current picture.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein encoding the tile index delta information is omitted for a sequentially first one among plurality of rectangular slices in the current picture.

7. The system of claim 5 , further comprising, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, encoding width information of that first rectangular slice and height information of that first rectangular slice.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, in response to a determination that that first rectangular slice does not adjoin a left boundary in the current picture, omitting encoding the height information of that first rectangular slice.

9. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon, that when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles grouped according to a plurality of rectangular slices; and

encoding slice partitioning information into a bitstream, the slice partitioning information specifying a rectangular slice definition method, and

encoding tile index delta information for one or more first rectangular slices of the plurality of rectangular slices, wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, the tile index delta information specifies a difference between an index of a tile located a top left of that first rectangular slice and an index of a tile located at a top left of a respective other rectangular slice of the plurality of rectangular slices, and

wherein encoding the tile index delta information is omitted for a sequentially last one among the plurality of rectangular slices in the current picture.

10. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 9 , wherein encoding the tile index delta information is omitted for a sequentially first one among plurality of rectangular slices in the current picture.

11. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 9 , further comprising, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, encoding width information of that first rectangular slice and height information of that first rectangular slice.

12. The one or more non-transitory, computer-readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein, for each of the one or more first rectangular slices, in response to a determination that that first rectangular slice does not adjoin a left boundary in the current picture, omitting encoding the height information of that first rectangular slice.

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