US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 7 for "Method and device for encoding or decoding image by means of block map" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,294, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for encoding or decoding image by means of block map" was invented by Bo-ra Jin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Min-woo Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Chan-yul Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jung-hye Min (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and device for encoding or decoding an image by using a block map. In the method and device for decoding an image according to an embodiment set forth herein, a bitstream of an encoded image is received, one or more blocks in a picture are determine...