US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 5 for "Image decoding method for deriving weight index information for biprediction, and device for same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,020, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method for deriving weight index information for biprediction, and device for same" 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 the current block indicates biprediction, weight index information for a candidate in a merge candidate list or sub-block merge candidate list can be derived, and coding efficiency can be raised."

The patent was filed on...