ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,893, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for performing transform index coding on basis of intra prediction mode, and device therefor" was invented by Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Medhi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea), Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure, in a method of decoding a video signal, provides a method including checking whether a transform skip is applied to a current block; acquiring a transform index indicating transform types applied to a horizontal direction and a vertical directi...