US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 26 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for determining sublayer on basis of whether or not to make reference between layers, and method for transmitting bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,273, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for determining sublayer on basis of whether or not to make reference between layers, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea), Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus is provided. The image decoding method performed by the image decoding apparatus may comprise determining inter-layer direct reference and determining the number of sublayers of a curr...