US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 24 for "Image encoding device and image decoding device using triangular prediction mode, and image encoding method and image decoding method performed thereby" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,960, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding device and image decoding device using triangular prediction mode, and image encoding method and image decoding method performed thereby" was invented by Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, information related to a triangle prediction mode for a current block; splitting the current block into two triangular partitions...