ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,821, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reconstructing image using image partitioning with rotation information" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an image includes receiving information on image partitioning for the image included in a bitstream; obtaining a plurality of image partitions included in the image based on the information on image partitioning; and decoding the plurality of image partitions. The decoding the image includes generating a residual block for a block included...