ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,713, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA CORPORTION (Seoul, South Korea) and KWANGWOON UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COLLABORATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for video coding using nonrectangular block splitting structure" was invented by Dong Gyu Sim (Seoul, South Korea), Min Hun Lee (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea), Joo Hyung Byeon (Seoul, South Korea), Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jin Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are disclosed for video coding using a nonrectangular block splitting structure ...