US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 23 for "Slice type-based image/video coding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,031, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Slice type-based image/video coding method and apparatus" was invented by Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea), Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes a plurality of sli...