US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 23 for "Image decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,080, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device" was invented by Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (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 present disclosure comprises the steps of: deriving a predicted number of signs of a current block; performing sign prediction of the current block to derive as many signs of residual coefficients as the predicted number of signs; d...