US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 29 for "Video or image coding for inducing weight index information for bi-prediction" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,445, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video or image coding for inducing weight index information for bi-prediction" 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 biprediction, weight index information for candidates in a merge candidate list or a sub-block merge candidate list can be induced or derived, and coding efficiency can be increased."

The patent was filed on Dec....