ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,038, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video coding using secondary most probable mode list based on template matching" was invented by Myung Oh Hong (Gwangmyeong, South Korea), Min Hun Lee (Uijeongbu, South Korea), Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Yongin, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video coding utilize a template matching-based secondary MPM list. The vi...