ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,033, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Scaling list parameter-based video or image coding" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data and scaling list-related information may be signaled hierarchically, thereby reducing the amount of data to be signaled for video/image coding and increasing coding efficiency."

The patent was filed on June 11, 2020, under Application No. 17/616,935.

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