ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,709, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video signal processing method and device using intra prediction filtering" was invented by Geonjung Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Dongcheol Kim (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Juhyung Son (Uiwang-Si, South Korea), Jaehong Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Anyang-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video signal processing method includes: a step for deriving an intra prediction mode of a current block; a step for constructing a reference sample around the current block; a step for generating a prediction sample of the current blo...