US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 1 for "Inter-prediction-based image or video coding using sbTMVP" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,764, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inter-prediction-based image or video coding using sbTMVP" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, in a subblock-based temporal motion vector prediction (sbTMVP), a position of a subblock for deriving a motion vector per subblock unit can be efficiently calculated, and thus video/image coding efficiency can be increased and hardware implementation can be simplified."

The patent was filed on...