US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 15 for "Image decoding method for deriving predicted sample by using merge candidate and device therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,951, issued on April 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method for deriving predicted sample by using merge candidate and device therefor" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for encoding and decoding images, wherein, if bi-prediction is applied, a weight for a merge candidate is derived, thereby improving the image compression efficiency, and making it possible to efficiently configure a motion vector candidate. A merge candidate list ...