US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on Sept. 9 for "Virtual boundary signaling method and apparatus for video encoding/decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,787, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Virtual boundary signaling method and apparatus for video encoding/decoding" was invented by Gun Bang (Daejeon, South Korea), Woong Lim (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 according to the present invention includes: obtaining information on whether filtering is performed on a virtual boundary for a current picture from a bitstream; decoding information on the number...