US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 1 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device for performing prediction, and method for transmitting bitstream involving weighted prediction and bi-directional optical flow" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,754, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device for performing prediction, and method for transmitting bitstream involving weighted prediction and bi-directional optical flow" was invented by Nae Ri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure is performed by an image decoding apparatus. The image decoding method comprises deriving a first flag specifyi...