US Patent Issued to KT on Feb. 3 for "Video signal encoding/decoding method based on intra prediction in sub-block units, and recording medium for storing bit-stream" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,911, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Video signal encoding/decoding method based on intra prediction in sub-block units, and recording medium for storing bit-stream" was invented by Sung Won Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding/decoding method according to the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: inducing a reference mode of respective neighboring blocks within a current block; and performing, on the basis of at least one of reference modes, intra prediction on a sub-block, in the current block, that is smaller than the current block."

The paten...