ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,727, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image or video coding based on color space conversion" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of this document, it is possible to derive a residual sample by applying an adaptive color transform (ACT) to a current block on the basis of ACT-related information, and at this time, the residual sample is clipped and derived on the basis of a clipping range, wherein the clipping range is determined on the basis of a bit depth."

The patent was filed on Se...