FIXED TILE STRUCTURE FLAG INDICATING PARALLEL PROCESSING POSSIBILITY FOR A SEQUENCE OF COMPRESSED VIDEO

摘要

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a transmitter where a syntax element is used to indicate if the tile information is the same for a sequence. The sequence is typically a bitstream for which one sequence parameter set (SPS) is valid. The syntax element can be part of the SPS or signaled such as in VUI or in an SEI message. Furthermore, the syntax element can be a flag, for example denoted tiles_fixed_structure_flag. The encoder decides how the pictures are divided by a tile structure enabling parallel encoding/decoding. When the same tile structure is used throughout a sequence, information that the same tile structure is used throughout a sequence of the video stream is sent to the decoder according to this embodiment.