US Patent Issued to KT on Oct. 20 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus involving histogram intra prediction mode derivation" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,831, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus involving histogram intra prediction mode derivation" was invented by Sung Won Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image encoding/decoding method. The method may include determining at least one intra prediction mode for a current block; and on the basis of the at least one intra prediction mode, performing intra prediction on the current block. Here, the at least one intra prediction mode may be determined via a histogram derived from a reference region of the current bloc...