ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,641, issued on July 29, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for processing video signal" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving most probable mode (MPM) candidates on the basis of an intra-prediction mode of candidate blocks; determining whether the MPM candidate having the intra-prediction mode, which is the same as that of a current block, exists among MPM candidates; and deriving the intra-prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the determina...