ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,476, issued on May 19, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Video encoding and decoding method for adaptively determining chroma intra directional prediction mode" was invented by Byeung Woo Jeon (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jee Yoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Bum Yoon Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video encoding method and a video decoding method are provided for adaptively determi...