US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Intra prediction mode mapping method and device using the method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,289, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Intra prediction mode mapping method and device using the method" was invented by Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an intra prediction mode mapping method and a device using the method. The intra prediction mode includes: decoding flag information providing information regarding whether an intra prediction mode of a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block, and decoding a syntax component i...