US Patent Issued to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Feb. 18 for "Method for encoding/decoding image signal and device for same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,627, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Method for encoding/decoding image signal and device for same" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present invention includes: a step for determining a reference sample line of a current block; a step for determining whether candidate intra-prediction modes identical to the intra-prediction mode of the current block exist; a step for deriving the intra-prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the determination; and a ste...