ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,022, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Encoding/decoding apparatus for processing video signals using reduced transform, and transmission apparatus for same" was invented by Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Mehdi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea), Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for decoding a video signal based on a reduced transform, which includes: checking whether a transform skip is applied to a current block; obtaining a transform index indicating a transform kernel of the current block from the ...