ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,304, issued on April 7, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Image processing method, and device for same" was invented by Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Junghak Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for encoding/decoding a video signal and an apparatus for the method. More specifically, a method for decoding a video signal comprises generating a residual block of a current block by performing entropy decoding on the video signal; if size of the cu...