US Patent Issued to Apple on May 19 for "Video signal encoding/decoding method and device therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,457, issued on May 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Video signal encoding/decoding method and device therefor" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method according to the present invention may comprise: a step for determining whether to divide a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; a step for determining an intra prediction mode for the current block; and a step for performing intra prediction for each sub-block on the basis of the intra prediction mode, when the current block is divided into the plurality of sub-blocks."

The patent was fi...