US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on July 7 for "Method and apparatus for deriving intra-prediction mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,959, issued on July 7, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for deriving intra-prediction mode" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of decoding an image including deriving intra prediction mode of a current block using an intra prediction mode of a neighbor block adjacent to the current block, constructing a reference sample of the curre...