US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on March 18 for "Intra prediction-based video encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,063, issued on March 18, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra prediction-based video 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: "A video encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention may: determine a reference area for the intra prediction of the current block; derive the intra prediction mode of the current block; and decode the current block on the basis of the reference area and the intra prediction mode."

The patent was filed on May 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/310,013.

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