US Patent Issued to University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University on April 21 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,064, issued on April 21, was assigned to University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dae Young Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea) and Tae Hyun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of decoding/encoding an image. The method of the present invention includes receiving a transform picture reference skip flag; determining whether the transform picture reference skip flag is on or off; and performing inter prediction on a current block on the basi...