US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 5 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding image data based on tree structure-based block division" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,098, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding image data based on tree structure-based block division" 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...