US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on July 21 for "Method and device for video encoding/decoding using intra-block copy" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,736, issued on July 21, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for video encoding/decoding using intra-block copy" was invented by Woong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyoung Jin Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Donghyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jongho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung-Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for video encoding/decoding based on an intra-block copy are disclosed. A method for decoding video data comprises decoding coding information for a chroma ...