US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 11 for "Method and device for signaling slice-related information" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,194, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for signaling slice-related information" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present disclosure, whether the number of slices included in the current picture is 1 is determined on the basis of a flag pertaining to whether or not sub-picture information is present, and a flag pertaining to whether a sub-picture includes a single slice."

The ...