US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 22 for "Method and device for removing redundant syntax from merge data syntax" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,861, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for removing redundant syntax from merge data syntax" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of determining a prediction mode of a current block on the basis of information about a prediction mode obtained from a bitstream; constructing a merge candidate list on the basis of the prediction mode; deriving motion informat...