US Patent Issued to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,603, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding" was invented by Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Jae Won (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Min Ha (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding, according to the present invention, may generate a candidate list of a current block and perform inter-prediction of the current block by using any one of a plurality of candidates belonging to the candidate list. Here, the plurality of candidates comprise at...