US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 28 for "BDOF-based inter prediction method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,758, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"BDOF-based inter prediction method and device" 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: "An image decoding method includes: deriving an L0 motion vector and a L1 motion vector of the current block; deriving prediction samples of the current block based on the L0 motion vector and the L1 motion vector; and generating reconstructed samples of the current block based on the prediction samples. Deriving the prediction samples includes applying bi-...