ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,856, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Luma mapping-based video or image coding" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure of the present document, an ID value of an LMCS APS may be within a predetermined range. Thus, an LMCS procedure can be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS is reduced. Since the performance of LMCS is improved, efficiency of video/image coding may increase."

The patent was filed on Dec. 9, 2024, under Application No. 18/974,523.

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