US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for decoding a video signal" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,023, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for decoding a video signal" was invented by Joon Young Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Sun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hee Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Byeong Moon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes obtaining block type identification information on a partition of the current macroblock when the current macroblock is intra-mixed, specifying a bock type of the current macroblock based on the block type identification information, obtainin...