US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for image decoding and image encoding using AI prediction block" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,655, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for image decoding and image encoding using AI prediction block" was invented by Kyungah Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Quockhanh Dinh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding an image, including obtaining a motion vector of a current block; obtaining a preliminary prediction block based on a reference block indicated by the motion vecto...