US Patent Issued to SK TELECOM on Jan. 20 for "Intra mode candidate configuration method and video decoding apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,978, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SK TELECOM Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra mode candidate configuration method and video decoding apparatus" was invented by Jae Il Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sun Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyung Hwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring candidate intra modes and a video decoding apparatus are disclosed. At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of configuring candidate intra modes for a chroma block, including determining whether a luma region corresponding to the chroma block has an encoding mode that is available...