ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,069, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC (Seoul, South Korea).
"Image decoding method and device thereof" was invented by Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring a block-based delta pulse code modulation (BDPCM) flag for a current block; on the basis of the BDPCM flag indicating that BDPCM is applied to the current block, acquiring a BDPCM direction flag for the current block; and storing, as an intra-pr...