US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on April 14 for "Video encoding and decoding using intra block copy" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,992, issued on April 14, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Video encoding and decoding using intra block copy" was invented by Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Seob Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method for predicting a picture, which is split into equal-sized coding tree blocks, in units of blocks, the method includes: reconstructing a block vector for a current coding block in a current coding tree block to be decoded, by decoding block vector information from a bitstream, wherein the cu...