US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 24 for "Image coding device and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,652, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image coding device and method" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In relation to an in-loop filtering procedure described in the present document, a virtual boundary is defined so as to further increase the subjective/objective visual quality of a restored picture and the in-loop filtering procedure can be applied across the virtual boundary. The virtual boundary can include, for example, a discontinuous edge such as a 360-degree...