US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 26 for "Image decoding method using context-coded sign flag in image coding system and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,242, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method using context-coded sign flag in image coding system and apparatus therefor" was invented by Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a context model for a sign flag of a current residual coefficient of a current block; and decoding the sign flag on the basis of the context model, wherein th...