US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 19 for "Method, apparatus and storage medium for image encoding/decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,453, issued on May 19, was assigned to ELECTRONICS and TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus and storage medium for image encoding/decoding" was invented by Woong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a method, an apparatus and a storage medium for image encoding/decoding. For efficient image compression, efficient syntax is required. Pieces of information required for image decoding may be structurally or semantically associated with each other. Based on this association, whether signaling of one piece of information...