US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Method for encoding/decoding an intra-picture prediction mode using two intra-prediction mode candidate, and apparatus using such a method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,885, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method for encoding/decoding an intra-picture prediction mode using two intra-prediction mode candidate, and apparatus using such a method" was invented by Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for decoding an intra-picture prediction mode includes the steps of: determining whether the intra-picture prediction mode of a current prediction unit is identical to a first intra-picture prediction mode candidate or a second intra-picture prediction mode candidate based on bit information; and when the intra-pictu...