US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for decoding a video signal" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,927, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for decoding a video signal" was invented by Jung Sun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hee Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewon Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Moon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Joon Young Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for decoding a video signal, comprising the steps of: acquiring a transform size flag of the current macroblock from a video signal; checking the number of non-zero transform coefficients at each pix...