US Patent Issued to LX SEMICON on May 20 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,387, issued on May 20, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, 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 may comprise deriving at least one merge candidate of a current block, generating an initial merge candidate list of the current ...