ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,363, issued on May 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and device and image encoding method and device 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: "According to embodiments of the present document, an intra-prediction mode candidate list of a current block can be constructed by means of a process of constructing a common intra-prediction mode list with respect to intra-prediction types. Therefore,...