US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 9 for "Method and apparatus for coding video using merging candidate list according to block division" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,414, issued on June 9, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for coding video using merging candidate list according to block division" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Ho Chan Ryu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to block merging according to block split among video coding techniques, and a method and an apparatus for coding and decoding a video, in which in generating and modifying a block merging list, spatial merging candidate blocks of the block merging list are changed according to a split type and order of a cu...