US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 8 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for selectively encoding size information of rectangular slice, and method for transmitting bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,973, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for selectively encoding size information of rectangular slice, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. An image decoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus may include acquiring size information indicating a size of a current slice corresponding to at least a portion of a c...