US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 21 for "Image decoding method and device therefor" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,071, issued on April 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, Calif.) and Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a value of a variable on the basis of whether a current picture is a first picture of a current access unit (AU) that is a coded video sequence start access unit (CVSS) AU instead of AU 0, wherein the variable indicates whether all pictur...