US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 25 for "Inter-prediction-based image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,046, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inter-prediction-based image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method and apparatus according to the present disclosure can determine an inter-prediction mode of a current block, derive motion information of the current block according to the determined inter-prediction mode, and obtain a prediction block of the current block, on the basis of the derived motion information."

The patent was filed on Feb. 25,...