US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 12 for "Video coding method and device which use sub-block unit intra prediction" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,815, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Video coding method and device which use sub-block unit intra prediction" 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 an intra prediction scheme among video coding techniques and, more particularly, relates to a video decoding method and apparatus for diving a block into a plurality of sub-blocks when intra prediction is performed and sequentially performing infra prediction on each of the sub-blocks. The decoding method performed by a video ...