US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on June 23 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,034, issued on June 23, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method includes obtaining symmetric motion vector difference mode availability information from a bitstream, obta...