Patent 8442109 was granted and assigned to Nokia on May, 2013 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for signaling ROI scalability information in a file format. The present invention provides an efficient signaling of ROI scalability information in the file format, wherein the signaling comprises providing the geometrical information of a ROI and an indication to identify the ROI each coded data unit is associated with within a tier or layer.