ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,888, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Intra prediction method and device" was invented by Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung Hyun Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an intra prediction method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may co...