US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 26 for "Virtual boundary-based image coding device and method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,295, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Virtual boundary-based image coding device and method" was invented by Hendry Hendry (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-loop filtering procedure for improving the picture quality of a reconstructed image (video) can be performed. The in-loop filtering procedure can be also performed on a picture divided into sub pictures. According to embodiments of the present document, sub picture-related information and in-loop filtering-related information can be efficiently signaled."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23, 2020, under Application No...