US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on March 4 for "Image encoding/decoding method using prediction block and apparatus for same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,855, issued on March 4, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method using prediction block and apparatus for same" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon-si, South Korea) and Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing fi...