US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Method for encoding/decoding image signal, and device therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,071, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method for encoding/decoding image signal, and device therefor" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: referring to a first flag for indicating whether intra block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) signaled through a sequence parameter set is permitted, so as to determine whether a second flag for indicating whether the intra BDPCM is applied to a current block is parsed; determining whether the intra BDPCM is applied to the cu...