ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,380, issued on June 9, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Method for decoding immersive video and method for encoding immersive video" was invented by Hong Chang Shin (Daejeon, South Korea), Gwang Soon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwan Jung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jun Young Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding method according to the present disclosure may include classifying a plurality of view images into a basic image and an additional image; performing pruning for at least one of the plurality of view images based on a result o...