US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 25 for "Image decoding device using tool set and image decoding method thereby, and image encoding device and image encoding method thereby" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,039, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image decoding device using tool set and image decoding method thereby, and image encoding device and image encoding method thereby" was invented by Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method may include: receiving a bitstream generated as a result of encoding an image sequence; obtaining, from a sequence parameter set of the bitstream, a first tool set index indicating a tool a...