US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device using intra prediction" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,029, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device using intra prediction" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention may determine an intra prediction mode of a current block and perform intra prediction on the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode, wherein the intra prediction mode of the current block is determined for each of a luminance block and a color difference block."

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