US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 29 for "Image decoding method and device for deriving weight index information for generation of prediction sample" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,444, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device for deriving weight index information for generation of prediction sample" 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: "According to the disclosure of the present document, when the inter prediction type of a current block indicates bi-prediction, weight index information for candidates in a merge candidate list or a sub-block merge candidate list can be derived, and thus coding efficiency can be increased."

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