ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,842, issued on May 13, was assigned to IDEAHUB INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method, device and system for encoding and decoding image" was invented by Yoon Sik Choe (Goyang-Si, South Korea) and Jang Won Choi (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for encoding and decoding an image. The present invention provides an intra prediction unit receives an input image, removes high frequency ingredients by low pass filtering an encoded luma pixel value in the input image during intra prediction, and generates a prediction block by predicting a chroma pixel value by using a low pass...