US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Oct. 20 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image and recording medium for storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,837, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Jin Heo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method comprises determining a tree structure for splitting a current block among candidate tree structures allowed for the current block, based on a block splitting information obtained from a bitstream, splitting the current block according to the determined tree structure, and de...