ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,934, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Signal processing device and image display device comprising same" was invented by Jaeyoun Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Jihoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeseop So (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeongil Son (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image display apparatus including the same are disclosed. A signal processing device of the present disclosure includes a decoder to decode data encoded based on at least two different coder-decoders, a buffer memory, and a controller to control the decoder and the buffer memory, wherein the controller con...