US Patent Issued to B1 Institute of Image Technology on Feb. 18 for "Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,610, issued on Feb. 18, 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: "A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the de...