ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,339, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intellectual Discovery Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and device for encoding/decoding image" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Ho Chan Ryu (Seoul, South Korea) and Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for encoding/decoding the image according to the present invention includes an intra prediction module configured to: determine an intra prediction mode of a current block; determine a scanning order of multiple sub blocks in the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode; and perform intra prediction of the curre...