US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 13 for "Method and device for image coding using motion vector" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,827, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for image coding using motion vector" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present document, symmetric motion vector differences (SMVDs) and merge mode motion vector differences (MMVDs) according to an inter prediction mode may be performed on the basis of reference picture types and, particularly, short term reference pictures may be used. Therefore, prediction performance and coding effic...