US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 27 for "Image decoding method using BDPCM and apparatus thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,872, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method using BDPCM and apparatus thereof" was invented by Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (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: obtaining a Block-based Delta Pulse Code Modulation (BDPCM) available flag indicating whether or not BDPCM is available for a chroma block and a luma block; obtaining...