ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,331, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Video decoding method and apparatus using the same" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method according to an embodiment of the present invention may include determining a type of a filter to be applied to a first-layer picture which a second-layer picture as a decoding target refers to; determining a filteri...