US Patent Issued to LX Semicon on Aug. 19 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,668, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is about an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. According to present invention, a method of decoding an image, the method comprising, loading information of a neighboring block of a current block; de...