US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 29 for "Method and device for weighted prediction for image/video coding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,730, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for weighted prediction for image/video coding" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea), Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method performed by a video decoding device may include: parsing a first flag and a second flag from a bitstream, wherein the first flag is related to whether weighted prediction is applied to slices referring to a picture parameter set within the bitstream, and the second flag is relat...