ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,485, issued on June 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video encoding and decoding method using adaptive reference pixel selection" was invented by Byeung Woo Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jee Yoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Bum Yoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method is disclosed for decoding a current block by using intra-prediction. The method includes: decoding related information including an...