US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for inter-prediction of pictures with different resolutions" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,835, issued on June 30, 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: "Methods encode or decode a picture sequence, some having different resolutions, and transmit a bitstream of encoded video data. The decoding method i...