| CPC H04N 19/119 (2014.11) [H04N 19/174 (2014.11); H04N 19/188 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11)] | 6 Claims |

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1. A method of encoding a frame into a bitstream, the frame being spatially divided into rectangular regions each of which is capable of comprising at least one slice, the method comprising:
encoding a rectangular region in the frame;
signalling an identifier of each one of the rectangular regions in the frame,
signalling first information corresponding to a number of the rectangular regions in the frame,
signalling second information of a position of the rectangular region within the frame, and
signalling a flag related to loop filtering across boundaries of at least one of the rectangular regions in the frame,
wherein inter prediction is capable of being used in the rectangular region,
wherein all of the identifier, the first information, and the second information are signalled in a single parameter set in the bitstream, and wherein third information, different from the first information corresponding to the number of the rectangular regions in the frame, of the number of bits used to represent the identifier of each one of the rectangular regions in the frame is further signalled in the bitstream in a state where a different identifier is assigned to each one of the rectangular regions in the frame, the number of bits being a variable number.
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