US Patent Issued to KT on March 17 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,063, issued on March 17, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Sung Won Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method according to the present invention comprises deriving an initial prediction parameter for a chroma block; adjusting the initial prediction parameter; and obtaining a prediction block for the chroma block, on the basis of the adjusted prediction parameter and a reconstructed luma block."

The patent was filed on March 20, 2023, under Application No. 18/848,707.

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