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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2023
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Liang Zhao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xin Zhao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yixin Du, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shan Liu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods may provide flexible picture partitioning, a method includes receiving a bitstream, that includes a picture, the picture partitioned into a plurality of coding tree units (CTUs), wherein at least one row or column of CTUs, among the plurality of CTUs of the picture, that is adjacent to a boundary of the picture has a size dimension that is smaller than a corresponding size dimension of each CTU among the plurality of CTUs that is not adjacent to any boundary of the picture; and encoding the bitstream based on the plurality of CTUs, wherein the at least one row or column of CTUs includes a first CTU row or a first CTU column of the picture that is adjacent to a top boundary or left boundary of the picture, respectively.