ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,887, issued on May 13, was assigned to IBEX PT HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of decoding moving pictures in intra prediction" was invented by Kwangje Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunoh Oh (Gwacheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding an image includes determining an intra prediction mode of a current block; generating a prediction block of the current block according to the intra prediction mode; generating a residual block by calculating a difference between the current block and the prediction block; transforming the residual block to generate a transform block; quantizing the tra...