US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 27 for "Transformation-based image coding method and device therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,853, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Transformation-based image coding method and device therefor" was invented by Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Mehdi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: determining whether or not an effective coefficient is present in a second area not including an upper-left first area of a current block; parsing an MTS index from a bitstream on the basis that the effective coefficient is n...