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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,465, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, weight index information for sub-block merge candidates of a current block can be derived and coding efficiency can be increased."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 2024, under Application No. 18/428,914.

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