ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,155, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video signal" was invented by Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Won Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Jae Won (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a video signal according to the present invention may include: determining whether or not change in brightness is present between a current video including a current block and a reference video of the current video; when it is determined that change in brightness is present between the current video and the referen...