US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 22 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and method of transmitting bitstream using sequence parameter set including information on maximum number of merge candidates" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,330, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and method of transmitting bitstream using sequence parameter set including information on maximum number of merge candidates" was invented by Nae Ri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure is performed by an image decoding apparatus. The image decoding method comprises constructing a merge cand...