US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Aug. 11 for "Method and device for encoding and decoding image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,077, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding and decoding image" was invented by Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Woong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present invention includes reconstructing a residual block by inverse-quantizing and inverse-transforming an entropy-decoded residual block, generating a prediction block by performing intra pred...