US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 17 for "Image decoding method and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,476, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and apparatus therefor" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by which a decoding apparatus decodes an image, according to the present disclosure, can signal slice-associated information on the basis of a flag related to whether there is sub-picture information and a flag related to whether a sub-picture includes a single slice."

The patent was filed on June 4, 2024, under Application No. 18/733,717.

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