US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Method and device for encoding and decoding intra-frame prediction" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,941, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Method and device for encoding and decoding intra-frame prediction" was invented by Je Chang Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Ki Baek Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ung Hwang (Bucheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for encoding and decoding intra prediction are disclosed. An image decoding method for performing intra prediction comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including data on prediction modes of a current block and a block adjacent to the current block; extracting the data from the received bitstr...