US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 20 for "CIIP-based prediction method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,985, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"CIIP-based prediction method and device" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongmoon Jang (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 device includes: obtaining image information including prediction-related information from a bitstream; determining whether combined inter-picture merge and intra-picture prediction (CIIP) is applied to a current block, on the basis of the prediction-related information; der...