Patent ID: 11902556
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method of transmitting a bitstream, the method comprising:
obtaining the bitstream generated by an image encoding method; and
transmitting the bitstream,
wherein the image encoding method comprising:
partitioning a current picture into one or more subpictures;
determining a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit type of each of a plurality of slices included in the one or more subpictures; and
encoding the plurality of slices based on the determined NAL unit type,
wherein the current picture is partitioned into two or more subpictures based on at least some of the plurality of slices having different NAL unit types, and
wherein each of the two or more subpictures is treated as one picture based on at least some of the plurality of slices having different NAL unit types,
wherein all slices in each subpicture included in the current picture have the same NAL unit type.