US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 24 for "Image encoding method and device, and image decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,221, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding method and device, and image decoding method and device" was invented by Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method may include obtaining a first coded block flag, when the first coded block flag of the current coding unit indicates that the current coding unit comprises the one or more non-zero significant transform coefficients, identifying whether at least one of a height and a width of the current coding unit is greater than a predeter...