US Patent Issued to LX SEMICON on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding in-screen prediction mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,721, issued on July 21, was assigned to LX SEMICON Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding in-screen prediction mode" was invented by Dong San Jun (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding/encoding method and apparatus are discussed. The image decoding method can include decoding candidate mode set selecting information, selecting a candidate mode set based on t...