US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 24 for "Planar prediction mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,677, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Planar prediction mode" was invented by Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Byeongmoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Seungwook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewon Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Jungsun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjoon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea), Joonyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Younghee Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "New intra planar modes are introduced for predicting digital video data. As part of the new intra planar modes, various methods are offered for predicting a first sample within a prediction unit, wh...