Patent 11252405 was granted and assigned to Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. on February, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include the steps of: determining whether a combined prediction mode is applied to a current block; when the combined prediction mode is applied to the current block, obtaining first and second prediction blocks with respect to the current block; and, on the basis of a calculation of a weighted sum of the first and second prediction blocks, obtaining a third prediction block with respect to the current block.