US Patent Issued to LX Semicon on July 21 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device related to block partition, and transmission method for bitstream related to block partition" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,738, issued on July 21, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device related to block partition, and transmission method for bitstream related to block partition" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction mode based intra prediction are prov...