US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 11 for "GPM-based image coding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,046, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"GPM-based image coding method and device" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Naeri Park (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 disclosure of the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining information related to a geometric partitioning mode (GPM) for a current block from a bitstream; deriving partitions of the current block on the basis of partition index information in the information related to the GPM, wherein the partitions include a f...