US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Sept. 9 for "Intra block copy-based encoding/decoding method, device, and bitstream storage medium" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,778, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Intra block copy-based encoding/decoding method, device, and bitstream storage medium" was invented by Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, 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, decoding an intra block copy p...