US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 7 for "Image decoding method and device for coding chroma quantization parameter offset-related information" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,302, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device for coding chroma quantization parameter offset-related information" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 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: obtaining CU chroma QP offset-related information for a current chroma block on the basis of the size and tree type of the current chroma block; deriving a chroma QP for the current chroma b...