ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,267, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video decoding apparatus and video decoding method" was invented by Seokhyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Taesung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding apparatus includes a first buffer storing input data received from an entropy decoder, a first motion compensation processor extracting motion compensation reference data based on the input data, and store the motion compensation reference data in a pixel cache, a second buffer, and a controller. The input data comprises one of first data including motion info...