US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 13 for "Image decoding method for chroma component and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,822, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method for chroma component and apparatus therefor" 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: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring image information including chroma quantization parameter data of at least one chroma QP mapping table for chroma components, and prediction information and residual information regarding the chroma components; ...