US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on March 31 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,064, issued on March 31, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium 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. The image decoding method includes a step of comparing block vector information included in a history-based candidate list with a block vector of a ...