US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on May 26 for "Image encoding/decoding method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,243, issued on May 26, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and device" was invented by Won Sik Cheong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kug Jin Yun (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 according to the present disclosure includes: when a current picture is composed of a plurality of tiles and a current tile among the plurality of tiles is partitioned into a plurality of slices, decoding information on the number of slices in tile that indicates...