US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Video encoding method and device, and video decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,733, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video encoding method and device, and video decoding method and device" was invented by Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods of image decoding and image encoding. In one or more embodiments, an image decoding method may comprise determining a first sample value of an upper left reference sample of the current block. The image decoding method may further comprise sequentially searching for a searched reference sample of...