US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 17 for "Image encoding and decoding of chroma block using luma block" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,088, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding and decoding of chroma block using luma block" was invented by Anish Tamse (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongil Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gahyun Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiho Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image decoding method including determining a current chroma block having a rectangular...