ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,740, issued on July 21, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Video signal processing method and device" was invented by Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of video decoding according to the present invention may comprise determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, determining a DC value using reference samples adjacent to the current block when the intra prediction mode of the current block is a DC mode, and deriving a prediction sample of the current block based on the DC value."

The patent was filed on Jan. 30, 2025, under Application No. 19/041,973.

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