US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 7 for "Mixed NAL unit type-based image encoding/decoding method and device, and method for transmitting bitstream" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,070, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mixed NAL unit type-based image encoding/decoding method and device, 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: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method comprises obtaining, from a bitstream, video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit type information of a current picture and first flag information specifying whether a subpicture included in the current picture is treated as one picture, determining a NAL unit typ...