US Patent Issued to LX Semicon on Sept. 8 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,621, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LX Semicon Co. Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium for storing bitstream" was invented by Dong San Jun (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Won Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyun Suk Ko (Daejeon, South Korea), Sung Chang Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Ho Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Ha Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hui Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding/encoding method and apparatus are discussed. An image decoding method can include deriving a sub-block based temporal merge candidate of a curre...