ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,009, issued on April 14, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY (Goyang-si, South Korea).
"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Gon Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Do Hyeon Park (Goyang-si, South Korea), Ji Hoon Do (Busan, South Korea) and Yong Uk Yoon (Jeju-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Offic...