ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,061, issued on April 21, was assigned to Industry-Academia Cooperation Group Of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for the region of interest encryption in hevc/h.265 video based on the coding unit" was invented by Young-Gab Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin-Yong Yu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for encrypting an ROI in a HEVC/H.265 video based on a coding unit are disclosed. The method, which is performed by an encryption apparatus, may include identifying a coding unit related to an ROI that is generated for each frame as the frames that constitute a video are p...