US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on March 31 for "Sub-block division-based image encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,046, issued on March 31, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Sub-block division-based image encoding/decoding method and device" 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 are a video encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The video decoding method of the present disclosure includes: obtaining block partitioning information of a current block; based on the block partitioni...