US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on June 23 for "Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,010, issued on June 23, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding" was invented by Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Soo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image to enhance inter prediction. According to the present invention, the method incl...