ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,783, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image/video coding method and apparatus on basis of picture division structure" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises: parsing number information about the number of slices for which height is explicitly signaled in a tile of a current picture from a bitstream; parsing height information about the height of the slices for which hei...