ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,707, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Decoding device and operating method thereof" was invented by Pureuna Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoding device includes: an entropy decoder configured to decode a bitstream and generate prediction information and sequence information of each of the plurality of coding units; an inter predictor configured to perform inter prediction on each of inter coding units among the plurality of coding units based on the prediction information; an intra predictor configured to perform intra prediction on each of intr...