ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,679, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Intra block coding-based video or image coding" was invented by Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure of the present document, prediction can be performed on the basis of information related to the maximum number of block vector candidates included in a merge candidate list for the IBC merge mode, and thus information for IBC, which is distinguished from information used in inter prediction, can be signaled separately, and the efficiency of screen cont...