ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,289, issued on April 7, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for intra-prediction. In addition, the objective of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for intra-prediction on a subblock unit basis. Furthermore, the objective of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for determining a division and an encoding order of subblock units."
The paten...