US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 14 for "Image decoding method using chroma quantization parameter, and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,617, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method using chroma quantization parameter, and apparatus therefor" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (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 residual information for a current chroma block; obtaining CU chroma QP offset-related information for the current chroma block on the basis of the size and tree type of the current chroma block;...