ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,145, issued on July 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sub-bitstream extraction-based image coding device and method for scalability" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiment(s) of the present document, multilayer-based coding can be performed. The multilayer-based coding can include a sub-bitstream extraction process. Inputs of the sub-bitstream extraction process can include a value related toa target OLS index and a value related to a highest temporal identifier."

The patent was filed on May 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/669,168.

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