US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Method and device for encoding intra prediction mode for image prediction unit, and method and device for decoding intra prediction mode for image prediction unit" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,376, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding intra prediction mode for image prediction unit, and method and device for decoding intra prediction mode for image prediction unit" was invented by Vadim Seregin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jianle Chen (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sun-il Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Tammy Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a chrominance component based on an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a luminan...