ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,619, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Image coding method and device therefor" was invented by Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea), Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving an intra-MIP syntax element for a first target block; deriving the value of the intra-MIP syntax element; setting a variable MIP flag for the preset specific area, which is the same as the area of the first target block, on the basis of the v...