ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,419, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for image encoding and decoding" was invented by Seung Eon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Won Hee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun Hyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeong Won Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Hun Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Won Seop Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung Yeop Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Do Kwan Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung Ho Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woo Suk Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jong Seong Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provide an im...