US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Video encoding method and device and video decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,362, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video encoding method and device and video decoding method and device" was invented by Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses for determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, based on a...