US Patent Issued to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University on June 23 for "Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image signal" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,058, issued on June 23, was assigned to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image signal" was invented by Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Won Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Jae Won (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding an image signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining whether there is a brightness change between a current image including a current block and a reference image of the current image; if it is determined that there is a brightness change betwee...