US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 17 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device using IBC prediction, and method for transmitting bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,490, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device using IBC prediction, and method for transmitting bitstream" was invented by Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Hak Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises determining whether a prediction mode of a current block is an intra block copy (IBC) mode based on information on the prediction mode of the current block, based on the prediction mode of the current...