ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,956, issued on April 15, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding/decoding image, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction using a plurality of reference sample lines are provided. An image decodin...