US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 17 for "Image encoding/decoding method and a transmission method using motion vector" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,515, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and a transmission method using motion vector" 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 embodiments according to the present document, merge mode motion vector differences (MMVD) and symmetric motion vector differences (SMVD) may be performed on the basis of reference picture types and, in particular, short-term reference pictures may be used. Accordingly, prediction performance and coding efficienc...