US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 22 for "Method and device for image coding using motion vector differences" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,863, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for image coding using motion vector differences" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present document, a prediction procedure may be performed for image/video coding, and the prediction procedure may include symmetric motion vector differences (SMVDs) and merge mode motion vector differences (MMVDs) according to an inter prediction. The inter prediction may be performed on the basis of r...