US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 16 for "Method and device for signaling information on chroma format" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,049, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for signaling information on chroma format" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (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 disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including prediction information for a current block; deriving a chroma array type for the current block on the basis of a separate color plane flag indicating whether three color co...