US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Image signal encoding/decoding method and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,706, issued on Sept. 9, 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 according to the present disclosure may include the steps of: determining whether a combined prediction mode is applied to a current block; when the combined prediction mode is applied to the current block, obtaining first and second prediction blocks with respect to the current block; and, on the basis of a calculation of a weighted sum of the first a...