US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 1 for "Inter prediction method and apparatus in image/video coding system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,485, issued on April 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inter prediction method and apparatus in image/video coding system" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea), Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: parsing, from a bitstream, flags associated with weighted prediction; parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from a picture header of the bitstream on the basis of the flags;...