US Patent Issued to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,324, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to B1 INSTITUTE OF IMAGE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention may determine a motion information encoding mode of a target block, configure a motion information prediction candidate group according to the motion information encoding mode, select one candidate from the motion information prediction candidate group so as to induce the selected candidate as motion information of the target bl...