US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for immersive video encoding and decoding, and method for transmitting a bitstream generated by the immersive video encoding method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,170, issued on April 7, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for immersive video encoding and decoding, and method for transmitting a bitstream generated by the immersive video encoding method" was invented by Eun Seok Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Beom Jeong (Yangju-si, South Korea) and Soon Bin Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an immersive image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and a method for transmitting a bitstream generated by the immersive image encoding method. An immersive image encoding ...