ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,655, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Adaptive loop filter-based video or image coding" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, information regarding ALF filter coefficients may be encoded/decoded by fixed order-based exponential golomb coding. In addition, information regarding a fixed filter in ALF may be binarized by fixed-length coding. Accordingly, signaling efficiency can be increased, and coding complexity can be decreased."

The patent was filed on J...