US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,949, issued on June 24, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image prediction method according to the present invention may comprise: identifying a reference pixel region designated for obtaining correlation information; determining a reference pixel processing configuration on the basis of determination of the availability of the reference pixel region; and performing intra prediction according to the determined reference pixel processing. As described above, performin...