Patent ID: 11889055
Assignee: OP SOLUTIONS, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An encoder, the encoder comprising circuitry configured to:
receive an input video;
for a current picture:
identify a first sub-picture of the current picture to be encoded using a lossless encoding protocol;
identify a second sub-picture of the current picture to be encoded with a lossy coding protocol;
encode the current picture, wherein encoding the current picture further comprises:
encoding the first sub-picture using the lossless encoding protocol and the second sub-picture using the lossy encoding protocol;
inserting an indication that the first sub-picture is encoded according to a lossless encoding protocol in a first sub-picture header;
inserting an indication that the second sub-picture is encoded according to a lossy encoding protocol in a second sub-picture header;
associating the first sub-picture header with the first sub-picture and the second sub-picture header with the second subpicture; and
including the first and second sub-picture headers in the bitstream.