ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,765, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Hendry Hendry (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 disclosure comprises the steps of: obtaining image information including HRD-related information relating to a target OLS, wherein the target OLS is one of OLSs including a plurality of layers; determining whether an HRD parameter syntax structure relating to the target OLS exists, on the basis of the HRD-related information; deriving an HRD parameter sy...