US Patent Issued to VIDAXIO on March 3 for "Video signal processing method and device using current picture reference" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,206, issued on March 3, was assigned to VIDAXIO LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Video signal processing method and device using current picture reference" was invented by Geonjung Ko (Seoul, South Korea), Dongcheol Kim (Suwon-Si, South Korea), Juhyung Son (Uiwang-Si, South Korea), Jaehong Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinsam Kwak (Anyang-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video signal processing method comprises: determining a prediction mode of a current block; when the prediction mode of the current block is a Block Copy (BC) prediction mode referring to a current picture, decoding the current block, based on the BC predicti...