ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,065, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method for encoding/decoding video signal, and apparatus therefor" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a video, according to the present invention, may comprise the steps of: parsing a first flag indicating whether inter prediction on the basis of a merge mode is applied to a current block; if the first flag is true, parsing a second flag indicating whether a regular merge mode or a merge offset encoding mode is applied to the current block; and if the second flag is true, parsing a third fl...