US Patent Issued to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 20 for "Image encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,870, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Image encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses" 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: "Image encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses according to the present invention may generate a prediction block of a current block based on a pre-defined prediction mode, generate a transform block of the current block through predetermined transformation, and reconstruct the current block based on the prediction block and the transform block."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2025...