# US 12,225,194 B2 · Method and device for signaling slice-related information

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- Number: US 12,225,194 B2
- Document ID: US12225194B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/779,984
- Filed: 2020-11-26
- Published: 2022-12-29
- Granted: 2025-02-11
- Earliest claimed: 2019-11-27
- Assignees: LG Electronics Inc.
- Applicants: LG Electronics Inc.
- Inventors: Hendry Hendry; Seethal Paluri; Seunghwan Kim
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12225194B2

## CPC

- H04N 19/174: the region being a slice, e.g. a line of blocks or a group of blocks
- H04N 19/105: Selection of the reference unit for prediction within a chosen coding or prediction mode, e.g. adaptive choice of position and number of pixels used for prediction
- H04N 19/107: between spatial and temporal predictive coding, e.g. picture refresh
- H04N 19/119: Adaptive subdivision aspects, e.g. subdivision of a picture into rectangular or non-rectangular coding blocks
- H04N 19/136: Incoming video signal characteristics or properties
- H04N 19/176: the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
- H04N 19/46: Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process (H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence)
- H04N 19/70: characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

In an image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present disclosure, whether the number of slices included in the current picture is 1 is determined on the basis of a flag pertaining to whether or not sub-picture information is present, and a flag pertaining to whether a sub-picture includes a single slice.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving image information including partitioning information for a current picture from a bitstream;
deriving a partitioning structure of the current picture including at least one slice based on the partitioning information for the current picture; and
decoding the current picture based on the partitioning structure,
wherein the image information includes a first flag related to the presence of subpicture information and a second flag related to whether each subpicture in the current picture includes only one slice,
wherein a value of the second flag is equal to 1 or 0,
wherein the value of the second flag being equal to 1 represents that the each subpicture in the current picture includes only one slice,
wherein a number of subpictures in the current picture is derived to be equal to 1 based on a value of the first flag being equal to 0,
wherein whether a number of slices included in the current picture is equal to 1 is determined by the value of the second flag based on the value of the first flag being equal to 0, and
wherein the image information includes information representing a number of slices in the current picture based on the second flag.

### Claim 2

An image encoding method performed by an encoding apparatus, the method comprising:
partitioning a current picture into at least one slice;
deriving a partitioning structure of the current picture including at least one slice;
generating partitioning information of the current picture based on the partitioning structure; and
encoding image information for the current picture including the partitioning information,
wherein the partitioning information includes a first flag related to the presence of subpicture information and a second flag related to whether each subpicture in the current picture includes only one slice,
wherein a value of the second flag is equal to 1 or 0,
wherein the value of the second flag being equal to 1 represents that the each subpicture in the current picture includes only one slice,
wherein a number of subpictures in the current picture is derived to be equal to 1 based on a value of the first flag being equal to 0,
wherein whether a number of slices included in the current picture is equal to 1 is determined by the value of the second flag based on the value of the first flag being equal to 0, and
wherein the image information includes information representing a number of slices in the current picture based on the second flag.

### Claim 3

A transmission method of data for image, the transmission method comprising:
obtaining a bitstream generated by a method, wherein the method comprises:
partitioning a current picture into at least one slice,
deriving a partitioning structure of the current picture including at least one slice,
generating partitioning information of the current picture based on the partitioning structure and
generating the bitstream by encoding image information for the current picture including the partitioning information; and
transmitting the data comprising the bitstream,
wherein the partitioning information includes a first flag related to the presence of subpicture information and a second flag related to whether each subpicture in the current picture includes only one slice,
wherein a value of the second flag is equal to 1 or 0,
wherein the value of the second flag being equal to 1 represents that the each subpicture in the current picture includes only one slice,
wherein a number of subpictures in the current picture is derived to be equal to 1 based on a value of the first flag being equal to 0,
wherein whether a number of slices included in the current picture is equal to 1 is determined by the value of the second flag based on the value of the first flag being equal to 0, and
wherein the image information includes information representing a number of slices in the current picture based on the second flag.