ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,072, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding disaplacement video using image tiling" was invented by Da Yun Nam (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Cheol Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong Il Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Seong Yong Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Chae Eun Rhee (Seoul, South Korea), Gwang Cheol Ryu (Gwangju, South Korea), Yong Wook Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Min Jung (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding a displacement video using ima...