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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,047, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Jangwon Choi (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 an intra block copy (IBC) mode as a prediction mode of a current block; deriving one or more block vectors and/or scaling information for the IBC mode; deriving a revised reference block for the current b...