US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 11 for "Intra prediction method and apparatus in image coding system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,371, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra prediction method and apparatus in image coding system" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: obtaining a reference sample line index of a current block and most probable mode (MPM)-related information; constructing an alternative MPM list on the basis of the reference sample line index; deriving an intra prediction mode of...