US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 3 for "Image decoding method and apparatus for deriving weight index information for weighted average when bi-prediction is applied" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,893, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and apparatus for deriving weight index information for weighted average when bi-prediction is applied" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a disclosure of the present document, when the type of inter-prediction of a current block is indicated as biprediction, weight index information for a candidate within a merge candidate list or a sub-block merge candidate list may be derived, and coding efficiency ma...