US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 15 for "Method and device for encoding image and method and device for decoding image on basis of sub-block" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,952, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding image and method and device for decoding image on basis of sub-block" was invented by Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an image according to an embodiment includes: when a size of a current block in the image is equal to or greater than a certain size, determining a candidate list including, as a candidate, a first reference block indicated b...