US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 7 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device for determining sub-layers on basis of required number of sub-layers, and bit-stream transmission method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,315, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device for determining sub-layers on basis of required number of sub-layers, and bit-stream transmission method" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus is provided. The image decoding method comprises determining at least one layer in an output layer set (OLS), and determining a number of sublayers for the at least one layer."

The patent was filed on No...