US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on March 31 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,035, issued on March 31, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Dong San Jun (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The video encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention can determine an intra prediction mode of a chroma block, specify a luminance area for inter-component reference of the chroma block, downsample the specified luminance area, derive parameters for the inter-component reference of the chroma block, apply the parameters to the downsampled luminance area, and the...