US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 26 for "History-based image coding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,276, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"History-based image coding method and apparatus" was invented by Naeri Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment disclosed in the present document, it is possible to derive a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) buffer for a current block based on a history, and to derive motion information of the current block based on an HMVP candidate included in the HMVP buff...