ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,038, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video or image coding employing adaptive loop filter" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed in an image decoding method according to the present disclosure is indication information regarding whether an adaptive loop filter (ALF) procedure to be applied to a current block is applied at a picture level or at a slice level."

The patent was filed on Dec. 10, 2020, under Application No. 17/783,959.

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