US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Video decoding method and apparatus and video encoding method and apparatus" (South Korean, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,277, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Video decoding method and apparatus and video encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Alexander Alshin (Seoul, Russia) and Elena Alshina (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a video decoding method including determining a displacement vector per unit time of pixels of a current block in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction, the pixels including a pixel adjacent to an inside of a boundary of the current block, by using values about reference pixels included in a first reference block and a second refe...