US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 23 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium having bitstream stored therein" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,073, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium having bitstream stored therein" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method may include determining a target boundary for a filtering by dividing a reconstructed picture; deriving a boundary strength for the target boundary based on whether at least one block among blocks adjacent to the target boundary was coded by a partition combined prediction, where the partition combined prediction represents a mode in which a predictio...