US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Methods and apparatuses of encoding/decoding intra prediction mode using candidate intra prediction modes" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,055, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Methods and apparatuses of encoding/decoding intra prediction mode using candidate intra prediction modes" was invented by Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus of encoding/decoding intra prediction mode using a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes are disclosed. The method includes deriving three candidate intra prediction modes about a current block and deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block."

The patent was filed on May 1, 2024, under Application No. 18/652,477....