ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,134, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding/encoding method and apparatus according to the present disclosure may: generate a candidate list for predicting a first motion vector of a current block; derive a control point vector of the current b...