US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for image coding/decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,760, issued on July 21, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for image coding/decoding" was invented by Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon-si, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (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: "A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: decoding a residual block by quantizing and inverse transforming an entropy-decoded residual block; generating a prediction block via motion com...