US Patent Issued to LX Semicon on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding, and recording medium storing bitstream for intra predicition using reference samples" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,345, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding, and recording medium storing bitstream for intra predicition using reference samples" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (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 mode based intra prediction are prov...