ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,648, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for inducing motion information between temporal points of sub prediction unit" was invented by Gwang Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Min Seong Lee (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea), Young Su Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoon Jin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, there is provided A method of encoding a three-dimensional (3D) image, the method comprising: determining a prediction mode for a current block as an inter predictio...