US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 15 for "Image coding apparatus and method thereof based on a quantization parameter derivation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,298, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image coding apparatus and method thereof based on a quantization parameter derivation" was invented by Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, a picture decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus is provided. The method comprises: decoding image information comprising information on a quantization parameter (QP), deriving an expected average luma value of a current block from neighboring available samples, deriving a quantization p...