ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,732, issued on May 6, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image signal encoding/decoding method and apparatus 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 are provided, which comprises: generating a merge candidate list of a current block; specifying any one of a plurality of merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; on the basis of a first affine seed vector and a second affine seed vector of the specified merge candidate, inducing a first affine seed vector and a second affine seed vector of ...