US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 12 for "Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,035, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus" was invented by Ki Baek Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method of decoding an image includes receiving a bitstream in which the image is encoded; obtaining index information for specifying a block division type of a current block in the image; and determining the block division type of the current block from a candidate group pre-defined in the decoding apparatus. The candidate group inclu...