Signaling of rectangular slices in the vvc video compression standard

A method comprising:

• retrieving, by a decoder of a video-compression system, tile information associated with a video frame;
• determining, for a slice, that the slice is a subset or a superset of a tile, based on the tile information;
• determining slice parameters associated with the slice, wherein the slice parameters comprise a width and a height of the slice in units of tiles;
• and
• decoding the video frame using the determined slice parameters.

A communication device comprising:

• a radio-frequency (RF) transmit (TX) circuit;
• a TX baseband module including an encoder configured to:
• 1 retrieve tile information associated with a video frame;
• determine, for a slice, that the slice is a subset or a superset of a tile, based on the tile information;
• and
• determine slice parameters associated with the slice,
• wherein the slice parameters comprise a width and a height of the slice in units of tiles, and
• wherein the RF TX circuit is configured to transmit the slice parameters associated with the slice.

A server comprising:

• a processor configured to perform video encoding;
• and
• one or more modules executed by the processor to:
• retrieve tile information;
• determine, for a slice, that the slice is a subset or a superset of a tile, based on the tile information;
• determine slice parameters associated with the slice, wherein the slice parameters comprise a width and a height of the slice in units of tiles;
• and
• signal the slice parameters associated with the slice.