US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Oct. 21 for "Intra block copy-based encoding/decoding method and device, and bitstream storage medium" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,451, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Intra block copy-based encoding/decoding method and device, and bitstream storage medium" was invented by Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, 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: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are disclosed. The image decoding method includes acquiring prediction mode information of a current block from a bitstream, deriving a prediction mode o...