US Patent Issued to HANWHA VISION on May 19 for "Method and device for high-level image segmentation and image encoding/decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,456, issued on May 19, was assigned to HANWHA VISION Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for high-level image segmentation and image encoding/decoding" was invented by Jae Gon Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea), Ji Hoon Do (Busan, South Korea), Do Heon Park (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Yong Uk Yoon (Jeju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method and device wherein segmentation information for a current picture is encoded/decoded, and the current picture is segmented into at least one of sub-picture units, slice units, and tile units according to the encoded/decoded segmentatio...