ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,874, issued on May 13, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Image coding method based on transform, and device therefor" was invented by Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficients comprises a step of setting an LFNST apply variable about whether to apply an LFNST on the basis of the tree type of the current block, a transform coef...