US Patent Issued to LX SEMICON on June 24 for "Method and device for encoding/decoding image, and recording medium storing bit stream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,954, issued on June 24, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding/decoding image, and recording medium storing bit stream" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for predicting a second color component block using a fir...