ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,974, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for processing video signal based on history based motion vector prediction" was invented by Jane Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure discloses a method for processing video signals and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method of processing video signals based on inter prediction, comprising: configuring a merge candidate list based on a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block to a current block; adding a history-based merge candidat...