ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,287, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method for residual coding based on transform-skip-related flag in image coding system, and apparatus therefor" was invented by Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining a dependent quantization available flag; obtaining a TSRC available flag, on the basis ...