ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,092, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video signal processing method and apparatus" was invented by Geonjung Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Dongcheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juhyung Son (Uiwang-si, South Korea), Jaehong Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a video signal processing method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal. In more detail, the video signal processing method includes receiving intra prediction mode information for a current block, wherein the intra prediction mode informati...