US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 13 for "Intra prediction-based image coding in image coding system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,788, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra prediction-based image coding in image coding system" was invented by Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving an intra prediction type for a current block from intra prediction types; deriving a first intra prediction mode for a neighboring block to the left of the current...