ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,162, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for inter-prediction of pictures with different resolutions" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wha Pyeong Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses encode or decode a picture sequence, some having different resolutions, and store a bitstream of encoded video data. The apparatus has a ...