US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 27 for "Mixed NAL unit type based-video encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and method for transmitting bitstream" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,854, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mixed NAL unit type based-video encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an image encoding and decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method may include obtaining video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit type information of a current picture from a bitstream, determining a NAL unit type of each of a plurality of slices included in the current picture, based on the obtained VCL NAL uni...