US Patent Issued to LX Semicon on March 18 for "Method and device for encoding/decoding image and recording medium having bitstream stored thereon" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,062, issued on March 18, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding/decoding image and recording medium having bitstream stored thereon" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, 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 relates to an image decoding method. The image decoding method comprises deriving initial motion information of a current block from at least one of motion information of a spatial neighbor block, moti...