US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 11 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,393, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Mehdi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method based on a Multiple Transform Selection (MTS). The method may comprise the steps of: parsing a first syntax element representing whether MTS applies to the inverse transformation of a current block, wherein the MTS represents a transform mode which us...