US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 8 for "Image encoding method and apparatus, and image decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,610, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding method and apparatus, and image decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Sun-il Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jung-hye Min (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Na-rae Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of decoding motion information characterized in that information for determining motion-related information includes spatial information and time information, wherein the spatial information indicates a direction of spatial prediction candidates used for sub-units from among spatial predictio...