ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,886, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Image encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong San Jun (Changwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses according to the present invention may generate a prediction block of a current block based on a pre-defined prediction mode, generate a transform block of the current block through predetermined transformation, and reconstruct the current block based on the prediction block and the transform block."
The patent was f...