US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 6 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using inter prediction" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,851, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using inter prediction" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus of the present invention may derive motion information of a current block, and perform motion compensation for the current block on the basis of the motion information. The motion information of the current block is derived on the basis of an inter-mode predefined in an encoding/decoding apparatus, and the predefined inter-mode may include at...