US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Oct. 6 for "Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using bi-directional intra prediction mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,817, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using bi-directional intra prediction mode" was invented by 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 for decoding a video includes generating second reference samples based on an intra-prediction mode of a current block and first reference samples. The method for decoding the video also includes generating prediction values of samples in the current block, by using values of the second reference samples and v...