ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,411, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and method of transmitting bitstream" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Moonmo Koo (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include determining whether a prediction mode of a current block is an intra prediction mode based on information on the prediction mode of t...