ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,675, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Video coding method and device using merge candidate" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a video encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention, a merge candidate of a current block may be determined, a merge candidate list may be configured on the basis of the merge candidate, motion information of the current block may be derived from the merge candidate list, and the motion information may be used to perform inter prediction of the current block."
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