US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Nov. 11 for "Intra prediction mode encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,696, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Intra prediction mode encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and apparatus of encoding/decoding an intra prediction mode. The method comprises deriving an intra prediction mode with respect to a current block, const...