US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 22 for "Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,388, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor" was invented by Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Elena Alshina (Seoul, South Korea), Alexander Alshin (Seoul, South Korea) and Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a video decoding method including: determining an inter prediction mode of a current block when the current block is inter-predicted; determining at least one reference sample location to be referred to by the current block, based on the inter prediction...