US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "Image decoding method and apparatus, and image encoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,620, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image decoding method and apparatus, and image encoding method and apparatus" was invented by Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungah Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangpyo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an image decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method includes identifying at least two neighboring sub-blocks that have a same motion vector and are adjacent to each other from among a plurality of neighbor...