US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 18 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for limiting size of chroma block, and method for transmitting bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,069, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for limiting size of chroma block, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Summi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus includes determining a splitting type of a current block, splitting the current block into a ...