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Heechul Yang — 12 Patents

Samsung: 12 patents #11,368 of 75,807Top 15%
Suwon-si, KR: #2,991 of 18,685 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Heechul Yang has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Samsung. The first was granted in 2020 and the most recent in September 2025. Heechul Yang ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Heechul Yang in Suwon-si, KR.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2020 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2023.peak 42020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 4 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12407854 Artificial intelligence (AI) encoding apparatus and method and AI decoding apparatus and method for region of object of interest in image Hyunkwon Chung, Inhak Na 2025-09-02
12400292 Apparatus and method for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding on image by using pre-processing Jaehwan Kim, Youngo Park, Chaeeun Lee 2025-08-26
12266089 Apparatus and method for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding of image Inhak Na, Hyunkwon Chung 2025-04-01
12022073 Video encoding method and apparatus, and video decoding method and apparatus using blocks split in various shapes from images Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park 2024-06-25
11706434 Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Minsoo Park 2023-07-18
11706432 Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Minsoo Park 2023-07-18
11706433 Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Minsoo Park 2023-07-18
11706435 Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Minsoo Park 2023-07-18
11438614 Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Minsoo Park 2022-09-06
11182876 Apparatus and method for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding on image by using pre-processing Jaehwan Kim, Youngo Park, Chaeeun Lee 2021-11-23
10825140 Apparatus and method for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding on image Jongseok Lee, Youngo Park, Kwangpyo Choi 2020-11-03
10817990 Apparatus and method for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding on image Jongseok Lee, Youngo Park, Kwangpyo Choi 2020-10-27