ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,793, issued on May 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method, method of transmitting bitstream, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method, a bitstream transmission method, and a computer-readable recording medium for storing a bitstream are provided. The image decoding method according to the present disclosure is an image decoding method performed by an im...