US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 7 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus based on palette mode, and recording medium that stores bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,958, issued on July 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus based on palette mode, and recording medium that stores bitstream" was invented by Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method comprises obtaining palette prediction information and palette index information of a current block from a bitstream, constructing a palette table for the current block based on the palette prediction infor...